Featuring soprano, tenor and grand piano, "Puccini & Mozart" is one of the most popular evenings in the festival's programme. The concert is a wonderful selection of arias and duets from what still stand as some of the best operas ever written: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, La bohème and Madama Butterfly.

Despite the fact that they were born a century apart, and lived through very different eras, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giacomo Puccini shared a natural flair for musical theatre. For both of them, it was their favourite genre. Each possessed a supreme talent for characterisation and composed music that could switch moods in an instant. Even their mutual taste for the exotic suggests two kindred spirits. They had an innate understanding of drama that all these years later continues to capture our imaginations. BUY TICKETS