The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame. The music and Verdi himself were subsumed into a surge of patriotic fervor culminating in the foundation of the modern nation of Italy. Specifically, the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ('Va, pensiero'), in which the Israelites express their longing for their homeland, came to stand for the country’s aspirations for unity and that exciting era in Italian history, the Risorgimento, or 'Resurgence'.
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himme...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...
Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...
L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...