An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethiopian princess Aida, and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
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...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the golds...
Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...