10 Terrifying Opera Moments 😱

Don Giovanni's many conquests through the ages return in ghostly form to drag the serial seducer down (or in this case up!) to hell... #zombiebride

All hail Macbeth! Shakespeare's grisly tale of ambition and obsession needs no introduction...

A terrifying story of children and possession - the ghost of Quint appears to the governess at the window...

'Peace and I are strangers grown' - Dido would know, with a terrifying multiple split personality that ultimately leads to her destruction...

Set in a chilling Siberian prison camp, the political prisoner Goryantchikov is brought in half dead...

'This is Tosca's kiss!' Tosca's murder of villain and manipulator Baron Scarpia is one of the most iconic killings in all of opera, and with Puccini's highly dramatic score, can be utterly chilling.

Let's face it, clowns are just scary. Especially when things spiral out of control on stage mid-performance and they end up stabbing their wives...

A staged, and comic, zombie attack on the scoundrel Baron Ochs in Act III, in which Annina acts the ghostly role of abandoned wife...

Shocking final moments of a one-act thriller – the dead body of his wife's lover under the cloak he used to wrap themselves and their child in...

A Novice is dragged back in, unable to walk, after being beaten for merely bumping into a senior officer, and he and the Novice's Friend sing a haunting duet...