Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothario, Don Juan. The title character seduces, deceives and murders his way through the opera, doing his utmost to experience life, and all that it has to offer, to the full.
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the 'grand style'. Plus the fact that the ...
Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordin...
Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015
I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...
This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...
Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
From the Styriarte Festival in Graz Austria, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Maestro...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...