"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto and Richard Stilwell. The opera is replete with extraordinary visual beauty as it presents the tragic story of young bohemians struggling to make it in the world.
At Salzburg Festival, Cecilia Bartoli shines as Ariodante with her dazzling coloratura in a highly a...
Manon Lescaut's production was updated and it worked. Highly professional production with two of the...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...
In October 2013, the Mariinsky label releases a DVD & Blu-ray of Strauss most Wagnerian of operas, D...
Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous v...
"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Ex...
A Scottish lighthouse goes dark. A visiting supply ship finds the building in order. But the keepers...
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verd...
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. Hi...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not ...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 201...
Franco Corelli is featured in this 1954 filmed version of Leoncavallo's opera, along with Tito Gobbi...
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, ...
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a...
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American so...
The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy bu...