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.
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...
Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...
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...
"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
While excerpts of the score are popular today, like the Hungarian March in the first part or Marguer...
Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...