Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble performance of René Kollo, Johanna Meier and Matti Salminen with, then as now the Wagner admirer, Daniel Barenboim conducting the Bayreuth orchestra inspired singers and instrumentalists to peak performance. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle created a dream-beautiful stage.
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and exp...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario ...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
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...
A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...
Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her roma...
Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured hero...
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic ...