The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimacy of this powerful tale of love and politics. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Aida, the Ethiopian princess-turned-slave in love with the Egyptian warrior Radamès, sung by Roberto Alagna. Olga Borodina is her rival, Amneris, daughter of the Pharao, and George Gagnidze sings Aida’s father, Amonasro, the King of Ethiopia. Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
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...
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...