Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia is a tragic masterpiece, led by one of opera’s great antiheroines – known as one of history’s most famous poisoners, Lucrezia is a complex woman in a dangerous situation.

Intrigue, politics, romance and lost luggage all play their part in Rossini’s great comic opera, Il Viaggio a Reims in a new production directed by Valentina Ceschi.