An Evening with the Royal Opera (Visual Album)

Here is why people flock to the opera, season after season: grand emotions, life-or-death decisions, gorgeous melodies and fabulous settings. And of course, the stars—of whom there are plenty here, notably Renée Fleming inhabiting the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata with Joseph Calleja as her mesmerised Alfredo. The many highlights also include Hibla Gerzmava and Teodor Ilincăi duetting rapturously in Puccini’s La bohème, Sarah Connolly as Purcell’s Dido in her deeply moving “Dido's Lament” and Erwin Schrott as a wonderfully confident Figaro in Mozart’s opera. Captured live at the Royal Opera House, these are moments to steal the heart.