The rare and glorious Handelian opera Alcina promises to hold you under its spell, as a tale of seduction, magic, and intrigue plays out to some of Handel's most beautiful masterpieces. Richard Jones returns to direct this Olivier Award-winning production at The Royal Opera House, featuring Emily D'Angelo as Ruggiero and Lisette Oropesa as Alcina!

A pair of scintillating one-woman operas are performed together at the Charing Cross Theatre as part of one unmissable double bill. Katherine McIndoe takes centre stage in The Seven Deadly Sins and The Human Voice, one after the other, under the direction of Alejandro Bonatto. Musical direction for The Seven Deadly Sins comes from Adrian Salinero, while Elspeth Wilkes is on MD duties for The Human Voice. Together they form an extraordinary pairing, as if featuring the same character at different life stages, with threads tied between explorations of womanhood, aspiration and heartbreak.

The Royal Ballet and Opera stages a thrilling production of George Bizet's magnificent opera classic Carmen as part of its new season! First premiered in Paris in 1875, the original has come to be regarded as one of the art form's greatest achievements. The ultimate tale of the femme fatale and how her ruthless behaviour leads those around her astray, Damiano Michieletto directs a stellar cast featuring the talents of Ramona Zaharia in the title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the despairing Don Jose.

Contemporary composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek's visceral, compelling, disturbing and deeply moving contemporary opera Angel's Bone is a latter-day parable about human trafficking mixed with shades of magical realism and a heady cocktail of punk rock, cabaret, modernism, electronic music and even some Renaissance-era polyphony. It's eclectic score and powerful story struck critics and audiences alike with awe upon its world premiere in New York in 2016, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music just a year later.

Tyranny and treachery intwine in Giacomo Puccini's menacing tragedy, in this explosive production from the English National Opera. A signature piece of the repertoire, Puccini infuses a twisting story of love, sacrifice, and revenge with soaring music that fills the auditorium and overpowers the senses, before building to a searing finale!

Before the Trojan Wars of Ancient Greece, mythological King Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia so that his army can set sail to Troy. In Iphigenie En Tauride, the story reimagines Iphigenia's ill-fated life and places her in the city of Tauride. She lives there in secret, hidden from her family...until her brother Orestes is also banished to the same place.

The Royal Ballet and Opera present a new production of Don Giovanni, conducted by Stefano Montanari, with an all-star cast including Gordon Bintner, Rachel Willis-Sorensen, Aigul Akhmetshina, Roberto Tagliavini and Bogdan Volkov! Touted as Opera's doomed playboy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's infamous Don Giovanni is a man much more sinister.