Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Classics on a Summer's Evening is an outdoor concert for an enormous audience which was staged in an...
Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothari...
Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.
Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...
In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the e...
Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival...
One of the lesser known works by Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers a...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...
Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...