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.

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...

Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame wit...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destin...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orc...

Rarely has a production of Verdi’s Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard ...

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected a...

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.