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
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
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The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...
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This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...