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.

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

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

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

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

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
A concert performance of the most famous parts of Dvořák's opera Rusalka in the park of Liteň Castle...

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

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...

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

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

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...

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...

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...

Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...