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.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
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.
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
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...
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...