Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
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...
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
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...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...