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

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

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel...

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, three naive stoners find themselves too bored and sad ...

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

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

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

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

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattr...
Ian, a commercially successful stage director, mounts an avant-garde production of "Othello" for the...

In a village in a country far away, the community live well and support each other. But when civil w...

Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to parti...