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Nos encontramos, quizás, ante la ópera perfecta para atrapar en sus redes y enamorar al más escéptico. Una ópera donde realidad y ficción se entremezclan y donde nada es lo que parece. Amor, desamor, celos, odio y muerte, como en la vida misma

This is opera, dirigido y presentado por el barítono y divulgador Ramón Gener, se centra en 'Eugene Onegin', una ópera de amores imposibles del compositor ruso Tchaikovsky, basada en uno de los clásicos de la literatura rusa de Pushkin. Gener comparte plató con la soprano rusa Anna Samuil, que da vida al personaje de Tatiana y cuenta en esta ocasión con la participación de estudiantes de canto del Conservatorio del Liceo de Barcelona; de Mar Giró, editor de moda de 'Marie-Claire'; y del periodista Xavier Domingo. 'Eugene Onegin' es una ópera en tres actos basada en la novela homónima de Alejandro Pushkin. En ella, Tatiana, una joven inocente de la Rusia rural del siglo XIX, se enamora de un dandy de San Petersburgo, el arrogante y atractivo Eugene Onegin. En esta obra los dos máximos exponentes del romanticismo ruso hablan de amores imposibles, homosexualidad, dandis, cartas de amor y duelos por honor.

Hoy hablaremos de Beethoven, el primer músico romántico. Un hombre que vivió obsesionado con el hecho creativo y que, con su ópera Fidelio, nos habla de aquellas cosas que movieron su vida: el amor, la injusticia y la libertad.

This is opera tiene como protagonista a Häendel, considerado el rey de la ópera en Londres. Por este motivo, el barítono, divulgador director y presentador del programa Ramón Gener viaja a la ciudad del Támesis para mostrar el trabajo del compositor alemán que hizo que Inglaterra amase la ópera. Gener también conversa con el contratenor Philippe Jaroussky sobre los 'castrati' y habla con la productora teatral Nica Burns sobre la personalidad y la obra de Häendel.

Cosi fan tutte de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart es uno de los máximos exponentes del clasicismo musical y su tema principal, narrado en clave de comedia, es la infidelidad. Esta es una ópera para los que creen en la fuerza de las relaciones humanas. Ramón Gener habla con el psicólogo Walter Riso sobre las infidelidades; y desde Viena entrevista al musicólogo Wagner-Trenkwitz, que descubre las claves de unas de las óperas más importantes del genial compositor austríaco nacido en Salzburgo en 1756.

Based on the timeless play by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score which portrays very clearly man's basic instincts. It is a story about obsession, about curiosity and about our desire for the prohibited. And the score expresses these topics perfectly: music which arouses strong emotions. Gener walks the viewer through how Salome makes one face his own fears and conscience.

Gener explains why Verdi's other operas would never have existed if Nabucco had never come to be. Gener travels to Valencia where Nabucco is being put on at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. There, he speaks about one of the central themes in Verdi's career- that of parent-child relationships.

"Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss, is a wonderful comedy of errors that reflects upon the passage of time. Set in eighteenth century imperial Vienna, it tells the story of the romance between an aristocratic woman at the gates of later life and a handsome boy of seventeen. Gener interviews psychologist Patricia Ramírez Loeffler, to discuss topics about the passage of time, about how it affects us all, about our fear of aging, about couples with a significant age difference, but also, about giving up and accepting.

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 and their parents about their reception to the opera. Later, he interviews a neuroscientist and a musicologist to understand more how Mozart's music is so captivating.

Gener explains the three reasons why opera came to Venice in the middle of the 17th century and became a true phenomenon for the masses. Then Gener heads to the wonderful Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, the first enclosed theatre in the world, to understand what theatres were like before opera exploded on the scene as a fashionable spectacle and to see how theatres alla italiana were born and proliferated in Venice.

Lulu is an opera about our most basic instincts, starring an enigmatic, dangerous and spellbinding woman. Sex, death and psychoanalysis are the necessary ingredients for a story that will leave no one indifferent.

Madame Butterfly teaches us about hope, longing, unconditional love and the problems when two cultures collide. Gener visits a cherry tree plantation in full bloom and will discover more about the symbolism of this tree in Japanese culture in general, and in Madame Butterfly specifically.

Written in the early 20th century by Antonin Dvorák, "Rusalka" is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Little Mermaid". The heart of the story is accepting one's own identity. But it also explores one of the great mysteries of humankind: the fragility of love. Will giving up on being who we are bring us happiness or misery? Is "Rusalka" a metaphor for racism? Or is it simply an exaltation of difference?

Gener retells the origin of opera and compares it to a metaphoric pregnancy. He guides explaining a double journey: the life journey of a future baby and Opera's "journey" to Florence and Mantua, through the history of music, of its evolution and gestation, until it gives birth to a genre as universal as the one of being human.

Gener speaks about the most important operas in history and why, thanks to emotions (both positive and negative), human beings are capable of feeling.