At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temper...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her pe...
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than S...
David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired b...
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to...
It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerm...
Live performance from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, February 25 2016.
Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.
Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering a...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fa...
Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for T...
The prestigious Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona presents Mozart's beloved opera in an elegant, ...