The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD release. Recorded in 2005 under the musical direction of Maurizio Barbacini, Fo's production brings fresh vitality and colour to the story of Lisetta, and of her father Don Pomponio's increasingly ridiculous attempts to find a husband for her through an advertisement in the newspaper LA GAZZETTA. Filmed using high definition cameras with multitrack sound.

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

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

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a...

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

In the Summer of 2009, the British director Nigel Lowery and the Iranian choreographer Amir Hosseinp...

Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor ...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...

A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the En...

Taped live at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev conducts this landmark product...

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance ...
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to ...

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...