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.

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

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

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

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

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...

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

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

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

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

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

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...

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

Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...

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

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

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

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