Eri Nakamura as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, The Royal Opera ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Lisette Oropesa as Violetta Valéry and Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo Germont in Richard Eyre's production of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. ©2021 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Brenda Rae as Queen of the Night in David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. ©2021 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Pretty Yende as Violetta Valéry and Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo Germont in Richard Eyre's production of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. ©2021 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Julia Bullock as Theodora in Katie Mitchell's production of Handel's Theodora, The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. © Camilla Greenwell

Maria Agresta as Lucrezia Contarini in Thaddeus Strassberger's Royal Opera production of I due Foscari, 2014. © ROH. Catherine Ashmore, 2014

Aida Garifullina as Musetta in Richard Jones’s production of Puccini’s La bohème, The Royal Opera Season 2019/20. ©2020 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Aigul Akhmetshina as Carmen in Carmen, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Pavol Breslik as Don Ottavio in Kasper Holten's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, The Royal Opera Season 2017/2018. © 2018 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Roberto Alagna as Andrea Chénier in David McVicar's production of Giordano's Andrea Chénier, The Royal Opera Season 2018/19. © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore.

Markus Butter as Gunther in Keith Warner's production of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, The Royal Opera Season 2018/2019 The Royal Opera ©2018 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Edgaras Montvidas as Tito in La Clemenza di Tito, The Royal Opera ©2021 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda

Gerald Finley as the Leader of the Players in David McVicar's production of Britten’s Death in Venice, The Royal Opera Season 2018/19. ©2019 ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore

Blaise Malaba as Montano in Keith Warner’s production of Verdi’s Otello, The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. The Royal Opera ©2022 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda

Freddie De Tommaso as Mario Cavaradossi in Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca. The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. ©2022 Photographer Clive Barda

Erwin Schrott as Baron Scarpia in Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca. The Royal Opera Season 2021/22. ©ROH 2022 Clive Barda

Elīna Garanča as Dalila and SeokJong Baek as Samson in rehearsal for Samson et Dalila, The Royal Opera ©Camilla Greenwell, 2022

Malin Byström as Salome. © ROH/Clive Barda

Poster shoot of Adele Thomas’s production of Handel’s Berenice, The Royal Opera © 2018 Damien Frost. Photograph by Damien Frost

Production photo of David McVicar's production of Gounod's Faust, The Royal Opera Season 2018/19 © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Clare Presland in Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, The Royal Opera ©2020 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda

Duncan Meadows as Naaman (Executioner) © 2018 ROH. Photographed by Clive Barda

Inscribed in "Me"' - Contemporary dance solo by choreographer and performer Alethia Antonia. ©2022. Photograph by Sanaa Abstrakt

SeokJong Baek as Samson in Samson et Dalila, The Royal Opera © 2026 Mihaela Bodlovic. Photograph by Mihaela Bodlovic

Carlos Álvarez as Simon Boccanegra in Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, The Royal Opera Season 2018/2019. The Royal Opera © 2018 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda