Craft
Filming opera without flattening it
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Complete stagings
Original ProductionWorld Premiere
The Royal Opera House Collection
Full productions filmed for the camera, with libretti, interval films and rehearsal-room records held alongside them.
- Release year
- 2024–2026
- Running time
- 19 stagings · 3 h average
- Genre
- Opera · Classical Music · Theatre
- Certificate
- Certificate 12
- Languages
- Sung in Italian, German, French and Russian · English subtitles
Synopsis
The collection gathers stagings recorded over four seasons, each presented complete and uncut with its original interval material.
Where a production has been revived, both records are kept so that the changes in design and casting remain legible.
Cast
- The Royal Opera Chorus
- Ensemble
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
- Orchestra
- Antonio Pappano
- Conductor, selected stagings
Creative Team
- Various
- Stage directors
- Claire Hutchings
- Series producer, Film & Stage
- Jonas Brekke
- Multi-camera director
- Royal Opera House
- Co-production
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