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.

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

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

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

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...

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

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

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

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

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

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordin...

A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic music...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...