In the first episode, Ramón Gener talks of the cultural setting of "Carmen" by Georges Bizet-the mos...

In this episode which is based out of two European cities, Milan and Munich, Gener looks into the op...

"The Barber of Seville" is the quintessential comic opera and irrefutable proof that opera is not ju...

At the height of his career, Puccini wrote this song to life, friendship and love. To illustrate it,...

"Parsifal" was Richard Wagner's last opera. Its story centers on the search for the Holy Grail, alth...

Beauty for beauty's sake. That is how Gener defines this opera by Debussy, an impressionist work wit...

Gener explains why Bel Canto awakens so many emotions and why it is a favorite for lovers of opera....

Gener heads to Bayreuth, the hometown of Richard Wagner, the composer of the most ambitious operatic...

Rome, the eternal city, is the setting for this episode. It's also the city where the action in "Tos...

To love and to be loved. This is the main theme in Verdi's "La Traviata", based on "The Lady of the...

Gener heads to Cadaques on the Costa Brava to talk about a great love story, of a love beyond death:...

To bring to light one of the most famous seducers in history, Gener delves into the world of the nig...

Rigoletto is not just the story of a curse. It's also a story of oppressors and the oppressed. Giuse...

Manon is a young Parisian woman who dreams of fame and riches. One day, Des Grieux crosses her path,...

Over 24 hours, Gener roams about the picturesque village of Aichach in the federal state of Bavaria...

"Theatre is life" is the verism motto behind this beautiful opera. Gener explores Pagliacci in which...

Tchaikovsky and Pushkin- the greatest examples of Russian Romanticism-speak to us about impossible r...

Gener discusses Beethoven and the composer's main drives in life- love, injustice, and freedom.

In London Gener reveals how Handel managed something which nobody had ever managed before: to make E...

Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the leading examples of musical classicism, and...

Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which por...

Gener explains why Verdi's other operas would never have existed if Nabucco had never come to be. Ge...

"Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, is a wonderful comedy of errors that reflects upon the passa...

The Magic Flute is the ideal opera for all ages, from children to seniors. Gener goes to a Spanish s...

Gener explains the three reasons why opera came to Venice in the middle of the 17th century and beca...

Lulu is an opera about our most basic instincts, starring an enigmatic, dangerous and spellbinding w...

Madame Butterfly teaches us about hope, longing, unconditional love and the problems when two cultur...

Written in the early 20th century by Antonin Dvorák, "Rusalka" is based on the Hans Christian Anders...

Gener retells the origin of opera and compares it to a metaphoric pregnancy. He guides explaining a...

Gener speaks about the most important operas in history and why, thanks to emotions (both positive a...