No doubt, Sir Georg Solti was one of the most auratic maestros of the past century. Being a real master of the orchestra he inevitably impressed his great visions of sound and interpretation upon the musicians and the audience. These rare black and white documentations produced in 1966 and 1968 show how Solti's amiable insistence in rehearsal with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart turns Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture and Berlioz' Hungarian March into sharpened and haunting performances.

Anton Bruckner’s 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unli...

“Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim...

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Packed with intricate melodies, harmonies, and instrumentation, Johannes Vogel conducts the Synchron...

The Salzburg Festival presents one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masterpieces: the opera Le Nozze di ...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...
The Christmas I Love’ is a very special Christmas gift – a collection of some of the most tender car...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...