Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera
For centuries in western culture, opera has been the best show on the planet. Historian Lucy Worsley explores how opera and history go together. She visits the great European cities at which a few of the most famous operas were written, tells the stories of those colourful characters who wrote them, and shows the way they reflected the turbulent times they were written in and also the lifestyles, hopes and fears of the individuals who dwelt in them. Whilst Lucy visits opera houses and the cities, Antonio Pappano, music manager of London's Royal Operathat helps us understand some of these operas' finest moments.