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.

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

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

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard W...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

From the first steps of an emerging singer to the final bow of a celebrated soprano, 'PRIMADONNA OR ...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...