Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus creates a climactic kaleidoscope of deep and convincing emotions. A highly credible incarnation of the pitiable Kleinzach he sings about, Aquiles Machado is the poet who loses his romantic idealism, his reflection and finally his soul to a 'trio of charming enchantresses'.

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

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

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

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 Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

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

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...

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

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

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...