Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Massenet: Manon - BLU-RAY

Torn between her desire of a life of splendour and riches and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux (Reece Clarke), the alluring and capricious Manon (Natalia Osipova) pays the ultimate price. MacMillan's adaptation of Abbe Prevost's novel L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut?embodies his acute insight into human psychology and his mastery of narrative choreography. This is MacMillan at his best; finding full expression in the impassioned duets of the central couple, visceral and urgent in their desire.

A classic story of love under the microscope is given a contemporary perspective in this performance of Mozart's Inchschool for loversInch. Così fan tutte is a compassionate examination of young love, full of wit and wonderful music which ensure it's lasting popularity. Così fan tutte was Mozart's final collaboration with the Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, and Jonathan Miller's production, created for The Royal Opera, brings out the timelessness of this exploration of the human condition. Jonathan Miller's Royal Opera production of Cosi fan tutte was a staple of the repertory for nearly twenty years. He died in 2019.

Kasper Holten's 2014 production of Don Giovanni for the Royal Opera offers a glimpse inside the mind of one of opera's most notorious seducers. With a spectacular revolving set by award-winning designer Es Devlin, ingenious video projections by Luke Halls, and an 'ideal cast on world beating form' (The Independent), this staging brings Mozart's dazzling score to life, in all it's wit, glamour, and darkness. Inch... A stunning evening... with Roberto Tagliavini's Leporello and Erwin Schrott's Giovanni we get a definitive pairing.Inch (Independent)