Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera
For hundreds of years in western culture, opera has become the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley investigates animation and history go hand in hand. She visits the wonderful European cities where a number of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters who composed them, and shows how they reflected that the tumultuous times they were written in and also the lives, hopes and fears of the people who dwelt inside them. Whilst Lucy visits with opera houses and the cities, Antonio Pappano, music manager of the Royal Opera of London that helps us know some of these operas' greatest musical minutes.