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.

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensu...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, ...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...

Iconic songstress Barbra Streisand culminates her 13-city tour in Miami with dazzling ballads, Broad...

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Macbeth (2006) Parma. Macbeth is one of the most multi-layered, profou...

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere duri...

José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...