When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a delight to the ear just as much as to the eye. Renée Fleming is every inch the glamorous Thaïs, swathed in elegant gowns designed by Christian Lacroix. Thomas Hampson is Athanaël, the tortured man of God. This production by John Cox, which premiered in December 2008, brilliantly sets the stage for a confrontation as old as civilization itself.
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
A comic opera in two acts about the fickleness of women performed by HAMU students at the Disk... Th...
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand f...
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
Ever since it opened the 2006–07 season, Anthony Minghella’s striking production of Madama Butterfly...
Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait...
Julie Taymor’s kaleidoscopic production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an encore p...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera ba...