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In Annilese Miskimmon's new production, sung in an English translation by Amanda Holden, the opera singer Floria Tosca plans a secret meeting with her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, in a concert hall in an unidentified European state overtaken by civil conflict. When the corrupt police chief Scarpia intervenes, a place of music is transformed into a site of fear and violence, and over one night Tosca is forced to fight for her love, her honour and her life. 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ENO Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon reimagines the timeless opera about love and tyranny in a concert hall in a European state overrun by civil war, exploring the art of resistance and love in the face of political censorship. Opera singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, are hunted by the sadistic police chief Scarpia, and over a single night Tosca is forced to fight for her love, her honour and her life. Sung in English with surtitles, the production features some of Puccini's most iconic arias, with Axelle Fanyo making her ENO debut as Tosca alongside Chaz'men Williams-Ali and Christopher Purves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tosca-english-national-opera-63441/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eee7e028c119ae6ffa596daabb2eb4be2d6dc24539b7ac924804ee936d58a092-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tosca", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-05T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 56", "price_from": "56.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/tosca-tickets/2027/04/12/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Puccini's Tosca is an operatic thriller about love, murder, and political intrigue set in the heart of Rome. The fierce heroine Floria Tosca must use all her wits to rescue her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, from the cruel police chief Scarpia. Oliver Mears directs this riveting opera, starring Aleksandra Kurzak in the title role, relocated to modern-day Rome with designs by Simon Lima Holdsworth and costumes by Ilona Karas. Its intense storytelling and powerful score include unforgettable pieces such as 'Vissi d'arte' and 'E lucevan le stelle'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tosca-63453/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f5951138489c622e7d5b767a267071ceb1c3316848ccbece578c4a6ee8e68de-600.webp"}, {"title": "Káťa Kabanová - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 50", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/kata-kabanova-royal-ballet-and-opera-tickets/2027/03/22/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Káťa Kabanová is an opera about a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage under her mother-in-law's oppressive rule, who becomes swept into a passionate love affair consumed by longing and guilt. Richard Jones directs an intimate, stripped-back staging of Janáček's classic score, adapted by Jakub Hrůša with traditional Czech folk melodies. Corinne Winters stars as the tragic Káťa in this Olivier Award-winning production. 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The Chelsea Opera Group chorus and orchestra perform it, conducted by Jonathon Cole-Swinard in his debut with the group, with Jacques Imbrailo as Hamlet and Haegee Lee as Ophélie. The opera, first premiered in Paris in 1868, sweeps darkly and splendidly through Shakespeare's famous tragedy. It is a rare chance to hear a 19th-century dramatic gem, with a pre-concert talk before the performance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thomas-hamlet-chelsea-opera-group-chorus-orchestra-35201/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/chelsea-opera-group-ambroise-thomas-hamlet/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/382839758d04294ea4056610271239fe95571e33dcaf93901c6b6e7ccba763e4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "La Sonnambula – Vincenzo Bellini", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jacksons Lane", "address": "Archway Road 269a, N6 5AA London", "price": "£31.00 - £49.00", "price_from": "31.00", "price_to": "49.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "An opera performance of Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula, a work about love, jealousy, misunderstandings and peril — and, unusually, nobody dies. The new production is directed by John Wilkie and conducted by Stefano Boccacci, with amazing casts. Bellini's opera is a tender, luminous story of love and reconciliation, carried by some of the most beautiful writing of the bel canto repertoire. It explores how quickly trust can be lost — and the extraordinary power of love when it is restored.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-sonnambula-vincenzo-bellini-36697/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a2574d58f2c5db30aee455babd11ea1aa487a1675e3db8f578cb474265664ea-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Un ballo in maschera - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 50", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/un-ballo-in-maschera-royal-ballet-and-opera-tickets/2026/11/30/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "An opera performance of Verdi's 'Un ballo in maschera' at the Royal Opera House in London. Director Philipp Stölzl makes his Royal Opera debut with this playfully surreal new production of Verdi's gripping, passionate opera based on a real historical royal assassination. King Gustavo, consumed by desire for his best friend's wife, is warned of his impending death by a fortune teller, weaving a tangled web of passion, treachery, prophecy and politics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/un-ballo-in-maschera-royal-ballet-and-opera-63458/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae899661c8f5fdc5871c353f363e6db92292c3f269dbde1187cce699fbde7299-600.webp"}, {"title": "Manon", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "£9 - £207", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "207.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/manon-lescaut-2014-digital", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/ballet"], "description": "Manon is a three-act ballet performed on the Main Stage of the Royal Opera House. Kenneth MacMillan choreographed this 1974 work for The Royal Ballet, set to music by Jules Massenet with designs by Nicholas Georgiadis. It tells of Manon, torn in 18th-century Paris between her love for the student Des Grieux and the tempting riches of Parisian society. 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The show is recommended for ages 12 and over and takes place in the venue's Grand Hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-dame-de-pique-73824/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/la-dame-de-pique/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4f83a25762fd86f4a424effb470a41c28adf8cfde71f146afce63a0d1e6a1433-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Manon - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 53", "price_from": "53.00", "price_to": "76.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/manon-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/ballet/classical-ballet"], "description": "A full-length ballet performed at the Royal Opera House, telling the story of Manon in 18th-century Paris. It was choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan in 1974 and is set to music by Jules Massenet, with designs by Nicholas Georgiadis. In the city's seedy underbelly, where money is king and everything has a price, Manon is torn between her steadfast love for the student Des Grieux and the temptations of wealth and high society. The ballet, an adaptation of Abbé Prévost's 1731 story, is praised for its nuanced understanding of human psychology and lasts about two hours and forty-five minutes, including two intervals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manon-royal-ballet-and-opera-63451/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f6e163c6e5c125600384a7420484b19b8342231a28fad140ff2976871ee2c44-600.webp"}, {"title": "La traviata - English National Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Coliseum", "address": "St Martin's Lane 32-35, WC2N 4ES London", "price": "GBP 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/la-traviata-english-national-opera-tickets/2027/02/03/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "This is a staging of Verdi's opera La traviata by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum. It is Peter Konwitschny's Olivier Award nominated production, a bold, minimalist take on one of the world's most performed operas, telling the heartbreaking love story of Violetta and Alfredo, torn apart by family and duty and forced into an inevitable sacrifice. Driven by the characters' emotional truths, it is set to a score with some of Verdi's most recognisable melodies and is startlingly modern and relatable.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-traviata-english-national-opera-63445/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bb9e5204776a85b8a585e67f38dac9dd978180f9c0fcc8329e9fbd07cc6ecc3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Il Trittico - Royal Ballet and Opera", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Opera House", "address": "Bow Street, WC2E 9DD London", "price": "GBP 50", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/il-trittico-tickets/2027/03/05/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "Il Trittico is a trio of one-act operas by Puccini, presented together as he intended, with lovers, mothers, and gold-diggers clashing in stories of jealousy, shame, and betrayal. Olivier Award winner Richard Jones directs and Speranza Scappucci conducts three casts featuring Natalya Romaniw, Étienne Dupuis, SeokJong Baek, Ermonela Jaho and Bryn Terfel. In Il tabarro, Giorgetta seeks solace after the death of her baby by having an affair; in Suor Angelica, a nun is visited by a relative with unwelcome news; and in Gianni Schicchi, a Florentine family enlists Schicchi to rewrite a will, though he has a scheme of his own. The three works move between tragic jealousy, agonising shame and hilarious chaos, each in its own distinct but complementary musical world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/il-trittico-royal-ballet-and-opera-63452/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93a8a33ff63b103710e3dc06a8edaa9986146771370560d5a49604569b04de76-600.webp"}]}