Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchino Rossini penned the masterful comic opera “L’Italiana in Algeri” (“The Italian Girl in Algiers”) in less than a month. The composer’s youthful exuberance comes across in this infectious 1987 performance. Though she’s known mainly for her Wagner roles, acclaimed German mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel shines in the title role of Isabella. Ralf Weikert conducts, and Mauro Pagano oversees sets and costumes.

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

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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

"The Queen of Spades" is considered Tchaikovsky's best creation by the world-famous conductor, Peopl...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...

Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink

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

Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...

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

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...

Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...