The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, which received its first performance in Dresden in 1911. Leading the ensemble was the radiant-voiced and profoundly thoughtful Marschallin of Anne Schwanewilms.

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

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

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

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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...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

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

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

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothari...

Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a sto...

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

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