John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti. As the simple, good-hearted Nemorino, he enchanted audiences with his larger-than-life personality as well as his golden voice. Enzo Dara as the quack Dr. Dulcamara provides the elixir of the title that helps Nemorino win the heart of Adina, the girl of his dreams, sung with youthful energy by Kathleen Battle.

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons ...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beauti...

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses...

Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and trav...

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violet...

The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has create...

Production from Antwerp. The knight Titurel has built a fortress for two sacred objects he has mira...

This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’...

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and ...

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but...

While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to h...

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face ha...

After he is rejected by the Great Poochini as an opening act, Mysto the Magician gets his revenge by...

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female th...

Spectacular! Opera in three acts. Filmed at a series of outstanding performances at the Teatro Real ...

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi t...

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.