Pappano's Greatest Arias

In this film, conductor and music director of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, shares his personal selection of some of opera’s greatest arias. Along the way he identifies the various functions that arias perform in opera – from entrance arias, soliloquies and arias born of crisis to breathless declarations of undying love. Combining workshops featuring today’s international stars such as Joyce DiDonato, Lucy Crowe, Bryan Hymel and Lawrence Brownlee along with an archive of operatic legends including Plácido Domingo, Gundula Janowitz, Pappano shines a fresh new light on the precise characteristics – vocal, musical, psychological and dramatic – that transform these great theatrical moments into timeless masterpieces.