The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behrens brings deep empathy to Brünnhilde, the favorite daughter of the god Wotan (James Morris) who nevertheless defies him. Morris’s portrayal of Wotan is deservedly legendary, as is Christa Ludwig, as Fricka. Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes are Sieglinde and Siegmund, and Kurt Moll is the threatening Hunding. James Levine and the Met orchestra provide astonishing color and drama. (Performed April 8, 1989)
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
An interesting look at love destroyed by the demon of drugs, which uses opera singing instead of spo...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Live broadcast of the opera performance held on November 10, 2012 at the Opéra national de Lorraine ...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...