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.

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...

Engelbert Humperdinck's beloved musical fairy tale HÄNSEL UND GRETEL is brought to life by Sir Georg...

Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmonia Chor Conducted by Karl Böhm Directed by Vaclav Kasli...

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The hom...
The boys' group of Rychlé pípy goes to the Wasp Meadow to observe insects. However, a seemingly dead...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizetti’s hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in t...

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-oper...

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act mas...

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...

Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the...

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the ...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

With war and acts of violence in the background, Aida tells the story of a fascinating and tense lov...

Having disposed of his enemies, Lucio Silla is now all-powerful. He wants to marry Giunia, but under...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...