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...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next o...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...
Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunci...