Adventures, mishaps and yearnings of a travelling song sheet pedlar on a tight commission, as he tries to make his dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries.

As Eileen is telling her school children their favourite fairy story, song sales man Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is coming back to make her his Princess.

Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he wants to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants to live the life that begins at Oxford Circus.

Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him. She agrees to finance his own record shop.

Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. His wife Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the murdered blind girl is to be opened.

Arthur is now wanted for murder so he and Eileen are on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely farmhouse, but Arthur makes a fatal error.

Exuberant musical drama about life at New York's High School for the Performing Arts, where a chosen few battle to get to the top of their desired professions. Starring Irene Cara. Show more

By Adrian Mitchell. The story of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, who, in the years after the abolition of slavery in the US, brought their Sorrow Songs to Europe. Show more

When five prostitutes are found dead in their community, residents of London Road in Ipswich, Suffolk come together to process the events and revitalize the community.

Musical about a singer who, while working the Paris cabaret scene, meets a man who knows his way around the city and conceives a plan to pass her off as a female impersonator. Show more

Comedy set in Australia in 1968. Four young, talented Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group, The Sapphires, entertains troops in Vietnam. Show more

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Suzy Klein presents the world premiere of Anna Nicole, based on the life of model Anna Nicole Smith. Starring Eva Maria Westbroek. Show more

Presented by Donald Macleod. From London's Coliseum, Mark Wigglesworth conducts ENO's celebrated production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal. With Stuart Skelton and Iain Paterson. Show more

Martin Handley presents a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, starring Marina Poplavskaya and Johan Reuter. Show more

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Martin Handley presents a performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, starring Nina Stemme and Endrik Wottrich. Show more

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Suzy Klein presents a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, conducted by Andris Nelsons, and starring soprano Kristine Opolais. Show more

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Louise Fryer presents David McVicar's production of Gounod's Faust, with tenor Vittorio Grigolo and soprano Angela Georghiu. Show more

Weinberg's The Passenger from the Bregenz Festival, with Elena Kelessidi (The Passenger) and Michelle Breedt (Lisa). Teodor Currentzis conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Show more

From the Grand Theatre, Leeds, Christopher Cook presents Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Ruddigore, with John Wilson conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North. Show more

Louise Fryer presents a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden of Wagner's celebrated opera Der Fliegende Hollander, starring Egils Silins as the Dutchman. Show more