Performed at Madrid’s historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten’s opera based on Lytton Strachey’s 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. In her repeated clashes with…

The Magic Flute opens with Prince Tamino being rescued from a serpent by Ladies in the employ of the Queen of the Night. Papageno the bird-catcher arrives and claims he…