Baritones

Rigoletto (George Petean) has demanded to know of Gilda’s whereabouts after the courtiers have abducted her. They only mock him, believe her to be his mistress. Now Rigoletto tells the courtiers that Gilda is in fact his daughter and begs them to let him see her.

Dario Solari (Iago) sings ‘Credo in un Dio crudel’ from Verdi's opera Otello at Poznań Opera.

Ashamed and remorseful, the Count (Duncan Rock) asks the Countess  (Kirsten MacKinnon) forgiveness  for trying to seduce Susanna ("Contessa perdono!" – "Countess, forgive me!"). The Countess, more kind than he ("Più docile io sono" – "I am more mild"), forgives her husband and all are contented. The opera ends in universal celebration.

Count di Luna (Ludovic Tézier) has learned that Leonora has decided to enter a convent after hearing that her love, Manrico, has died in battle. But the count also loves Leonora and announces it to the world while he waits outside the convent for the right moment to kidnap her. Conducted by Maurizio Benini and directed by Francisco Negrín.

La Monnaie / De Munt presents Henry VIII, by Camille Saint-Saëns, in a production conducted by Alain Altinoglu and directed by Olivier Py. The opera tell the story of the second monarch of the House of Tudor, married six times and wielding the most absolute power of all the English kings. Henry VIII (Lionel Lhote) here reveals the weakness of a monarch in love, determined to make Anne Boleyn his second wife whatever the view of Rome.

Papageno (Jonathan McGovern) can hardly believe his eyes when he is reunited with his perfect match, Papagena (Lara Marie Müller). The pair are overjoyed and look forward to making a family filled with little Papagenos and Papagenas.

Scarpia (Roberto Frontali) sends the police agent Spoletta (Saverio Fiore) to follow Tosca. As the church celebrates Napoleon’s apparent defeat with a Te Deum, the Chief of Police indulges in his plan to steal Tosca for himself.

Act I. Figaro (Rodion Pogossov), formerly the Count's servant and now a barber in Seville, arrives rejoicing in his profession. Conducted by José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and directed by Fabio Sparvoli.

Don Giovanni (Mariusz Kwiecień) organises a party, during which he sings his 'Champagne aria'. This aria is one of the shortest of Mozart's operas, lasting just two minutes but it is key to understanding his character, namely; his taste for the festivities, his desire to seduce and his inexhaustible energy.

Enrico (Artur Rucinski) is furious that her sister Lucia has had a secret romantic meeting with a family’s enemy. He feels betrayed. Conducted by Daniel Oren and directed by David Alden.

Act II. Marietta (Sara Jakubiak) leads her troupe in a toast before asking Fritz (Günter Papendell) to sing a song. He chooses Pierrot’s Tanzlied, which tells the tale of a clown dancing in the moonlight with his beloved – a simple happiness now lost to him forever.

Paul Carey Jones, the Wanderer, sings ‘Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach!’ from Act 3 Scene 1 of Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera.

Baritone Juan Jesús Rodríguez sings 'Di Provenza il mar, il suol' from Verdi's opera La traviata at Teatro Real conducted by Renato Palumbo and directed by David McVicar.