Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect a masterful rendition of this rarely-performed opera involving spectacular scenes of alternating light and dark, pageantry and intimacy. Staged and recorded at Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Bologna, Italy.
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...
This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...
This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...
Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.
In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...
Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Fearless and unforgettably creepy. This high-concept production, filmed live at London’s Donmar Ware...
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...