Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-renowned Glyndebourne Opera House in the United Kingdom, sets the timeless tale of jealousy and treachery in the black-and-white world of the silent-movie era. Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci sings the title role of Rodelinda, with tenor Kurt Streit and bass Umberto Chiummo performing the parts of Grimoaldo and Garibaldo, respectively.
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next o...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...
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...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a sto...
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Nabucco (2009) Parma. NABUCCO was Verdi’s third work for the stage and...
"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau'...