Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.

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...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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...

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...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...

Iconic songstress Barbra Streisand culminates her 13-city tour in Miami with dazzling ballads, Broad...

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...