September 20, 2015 • 50m
"Theatre is life" is the verism motto behind this beautiful opera. Gener explores Pagliacci in which fiction and reality interming...Read more
September 27, 2015 • 50m
Tchaikovsky and Pushkin- the greatest examples of Russian Romanticism-speak to us about impossible romances, homosexuality, dandie...Read more
October 4, 2015 • 50m
Gener discusses Beethoven and the composer's main drives in life- love, injustice, and freedom.
October 11, 2015 • 50m
In London Gener reveals how Handel managed something which nobody had ever managed before: to make England love opera. This is an ...Read more
October 18, 2015 • 50m
Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the leading examples of musical classicism, and its main topic, narrated as a ...Read more
October 25, 2015 • 50m
Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which portrays very clearly man's basic...Read more
November 1, 2015 • 50m
Gener explains why Verdi's other operas would never have existed if Nabucco had never come to be. Gener travels to Valencia where ...Read more
November 8, 2015 • 50m
"Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, is a wonderful comedy of errors that reflects upon the passage of time. Set in eighteenth ...Read more
November 15, 2015 • 50m
The Magic Flute is the ideal opera for all ages, from children to seniors. Gener goes to a Spanish school to interview 7 year olds...Read more
November 22, 2015 • 50m
Gener explains the three reasons why opera came to Venice in the middle of the 17th century and became a true phenomenon for the m...Read more
November 29, 2015 • 50m
Lulu is an opera about our most basic instincts, starring an enigmatic, dangerous and spellbinding woman. Sex, death and psychoana...Read more
December 6, 2015 • 50m
Madame Butterfly teaches us about hope, longing, unconditional love and the problems when two cultures collide. Gener visits a che...Read more
December 13, 2015 • 50m
Written in the early 20th century by Antonin Dvorák, "Rusalka" is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Little Mermaid"....Read more
December 20, 2015 • 50m
Gener retells the origin of opera and compares it to a metaphoric pregnancy. He guides explaining a double journey: the life journ...Read more
December 27, 2015 • 50m
Gener speaks about the most important operas in history and why, thanks to emotions (both positive and negative), human beings are capable of feeling.