David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, and a cast which includes Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, and Lisa Milne.
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Robert Lepage’s dreamlike production, with its thousands of twinkling LED lights stretching across t...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...