German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of the title character's quest to save the Knights of the Holy Grail by returning the Holy Spear, healing King Amfortas, and carrying out the sacred ceremony of uncovering the Holy Grail.
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one ...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
Bellezza (Beauty) admires herself in the mirror, but knows that her beauty will one day pass. Piacer...
Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian pri...
"The Queen of Spades" is considered Tchaikovsky's best creation by the world-famous conductor, Peopl...
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...