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.
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Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
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Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
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 ...
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Performed live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gluck's opera in three acts is conducted by ...
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The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...
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John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...