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.
Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...
The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets...
Lucia’s brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo. He...
The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has bo...
Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena l...
Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...
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...
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...
Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...
The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...