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.

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

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

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have al...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Donald Runnicles directs the San Francisco Opera in this lavish production of Giacomo Puccini’s fina...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard W...

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

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

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another...

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

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

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...