As the saying goes, “Shakespeare invented him, Verdi made him immortal” – and, surely, it was Bryn Terfel who defined him. Terfel first sung Falstaff in 1999, and in 2021, the bass-baritone superstar returns once more to the role at Grange Park Opera. In a production by Stephen Medcalf first shown in the 17th century Farnese theatre in Parma in 2011 with designs that are truly Falstaffian including sensational backcloths by Italian supremo Rinaldo Rinaldi.

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...

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensu...

Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged wit...

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

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Two rival acting students are forced to reconcile their differences and play lovers Romeo and Juliet...

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conqu...

Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at ...

The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they ...

The innocent Candide discovers that human beings aren't all they are cracked up to be and ultimately...

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage...

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunci...

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

Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...

Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carryi...