This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...
Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...
A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization...
“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
Twenty-two year old Neuroscience student Wendy is in the midst of a transition from pre-med to perfo...
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...
With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...
Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...
Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...
Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.