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.
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
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This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...
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A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...
Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
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"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau'...
Production of Mozart's opera about the Spanish nobleman who seeks to rescue his beloved Konstanze fr...
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Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...