Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light.
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc...
Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy C...
“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and...
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the ...
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart ...
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...
In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite ...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of L...
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering a...