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.

Flights of fantasy, a puppet child and breath-taking moments of stillness. The music of Philip Glass has long inspired Director Phelim McDermott, who now joins forces with the legendary composer himself for their most intimate and meditative collaboration yet - Tao of Glass, which follows acclaimed works such as Satyagraha, Akhnaten and The Perfect American.

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.