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.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that h...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of cre...

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, l...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

The tale of a quick-witted fox and her escape from confinement for a life in the forest.

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle...

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected a...

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orc...

Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard ...

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches ...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. L...

A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignor...