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.

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

The moon landing is juxtaposed to Dante and Beatrice's journey through paradise in this visual orato...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destin...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

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

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

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

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

A rarely performed bel canto gem, Rossini’s Semiramide returned to the Met for the first time in nea...

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...