Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular barber of Seville, with bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast.

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

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

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

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...

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

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

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...

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

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

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

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...