The show premiered on Servus TV in Austria and Germany on 17 January 2015,[6] on La 2 in Spain on 8 March 2015, on RAI 5 in Italy on 15 May 2015,[7] and on 19 August 2015, on Foxtel Arts in Australia.

[21] In the first episode, Ramon Gener talks of the cultural setting of Carmen by Georges Bizet—the most frequently staged and most popular French opera.

In this episode, Ramon Gener explains the essential "ingredients" in Rossini’s music: staccato, crescendo, patter song, the fifth interval, and coloratura.

Despite bel canto being born in Italy and all its composers being Italian, the viewer discovers why many of its operas are written in French and why so many of its authors moved to France to premiere them.

Filming Locations: Madrid Gener heads to Bayreuth, the hometown of Richard Wagner, the composer of the ambitious operatic saga, The Ring of the Nibelung.

Gener touches on all of them as he visits the Autostad automotive plant, walks the stage at the Bayreuther Festspielhaus (a theatre designed by Wagner himself), and converses with an expert on the composer.

Filming Locations: Cadaqués To bring to light the famous seducer, Gener delves into the world of the night, to get to know the techniques for hooking up used by today’s Don Juans.

Filming Locations: Barcelona, Madrid Over 24 hours, Gener roams about the village of Aichach in Bavaria and discusses one of romanticism’s first operas, The Freeshooter, written in 1820.

Filming Locations: Platja d'Aro Tchaikovsky and Pushkin—the greatest examples of Russian Romanticism—speak to us about impossible romances, homosexuality, dandies, love letters, and duels of honor.

[22] Filming Locations: Barcelona Gener discusses Beethoven and the composer's main drives in life- love, injustice, and freedom.

Filming Locations: London Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a leading example of musical classicism, and its main topic, narrated as a comedy, is infidelity.

Filming Locations: Empúries Based on the Oscar Wilde play, Richard Strauss wrote a troubling, uneasy score that portrays man's basic instincts.

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.

Filming Locations: Tudela de Duero 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.

Filming Locations: Venice Lulu is about our most basic instincts, starring an enigmatic, dangerous and spellbinding woman—with sex, death, and psychoanalysis as the main ingredients for the story.

Filming Locations: Barcelona Written in the early 20th century by Antonin Dvorák, Rusalka is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid.