Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger film (whose ideas it occasionally borrows). Olivier Py's baroque imagination, which sometimes leads him into self-indulgence and incoherence, is well suited to bringing out this opera's darkness and he does an excellent job

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE EN...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothari...

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...

23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly –...

The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in...

Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...