Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright distribution. Maria Bayo returns to one of her signature role as Rosina, opposite Juan Diego Florez, the Rossini expert tenor. The title role is embodied by the Italian baritone Pietro Spagnoli, while Ruggero Raimondi and Bruno Pratico reconcile the audience with Don Basilio and Don Bartolo.

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

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...

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...

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

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...

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

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...

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

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

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