Opera

Who wrote the first opera

What was the first opera ever written?

Pretty Yende in Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Lucia Di Lammermoor’ at the Bastille Opera House in Paris (credit: Getty Images)

Why do opera singers use so much vibrato?

'Comedy and Tragedy' masks (Digital Composite)

What is the difference between a musical and an opera?

When did Gilbert and Sullivan split up

Why did Gilbert and Sullivan quarrel over a carpet?

A guide to Wagner’s Parsifal

Six of the best Mozart operas

Wagner's great Romantic opera Lohengrin

A guide to Wagner’s Lohengrin

A guide to Gluck’s style…

Wagner best recordings

The best recordings of Wagner

Julius Caesar

Operas about Roman leaders: six of the best

Debussy famous works

Five essential works by Debussy

An Introduction to Debussy’s Pélleas et Mélisande

20 Greatest Operas of all time

The 20 Greatest Operas of all time

Anna Devin and David Stout as Susanna and Figaro (Credit: Getty)

Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro voted greatest opera of all time

Jake Heggie's 'Dead Man Walking' (Credit: Cory Weaver)

Six great contemporary operas