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
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
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...