Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual d...

This is an excerpt from the 60-minute film commissioned for Conrad Cummings's opera of the same titl...

The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best ...

Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the ...

A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic music...

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge...

In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable v...

The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...

An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.

It happened during the reign of King Vladislav Jagiellon: the rebellious knight Dalibor is sentenced...

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" find their lives parallel t...

L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...

Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent sé...