Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera
For hundreds of years in culture, opera has been the greatest show on the planet. Historian Lucy Worsley investigates opera and history go together. She visits the amazing European cities at which some of the very well-known operas were written, tells the stories of those colourful personalities that composed themand shows the way they represented the turbulent times these were written in and also the lives, hopes and fears of the individuals who lived in them. Whilst Lucy and European opera houses along with the cities visit, music manager of London's Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano, helps us understand some of those operas' greatest seconds.