Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...

Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor ...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...

A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the En...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...
Smetana's penultimate opera premiered on September 18, 1878, at the New Czech Theater. At the Nation...

The most popular Czech comic opera, with a libretto by Karel Sabina, marking the 200th anniversary o...

Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...