Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera
For centuries in civilization, opera has become the greatest show on earth. Historian Lucy Worsley explores history and opera go together. She visits the excellent European cities by which some of the very well-known operas were written, tells the stories of the colourful characters that composed them, and shows the way they represented that the turbulent times these were composed in and also the lifestyles, hopes and fears of the men and women who lived in them. Whilst Lucy visits European opera houses along with the cities, music director of the Royal Opera of London, Antonio Pappano that helps us know some of these operas' finest seconds.