"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the public." This turned out to be a truly prophetic statement since none of Puccinis other world successes were received on their first nights as rapturously as Manon Lescaut. The popularity of Puccinis great masterpiece has never waned and the highly acclaimed Götz Friedrich production at Covent Garden was hailed as an operatic milestone. Two of the worlds leading stars--Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo--head a strong cast conducted by the brilliant Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Legendary director Hans Neuenfels once again proves his great skill with this interpretation of Moza...
Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and C...
Live recording at Parma Verdi Festival 6 October, 2008. Massimo Zanetti conducting Orchestra e Coro ...
Both Florez and Diana Damrau brought their bel canto expertise and superb vocalism to the service of...
Live performance at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, September 25-28 2010. Myung-Whun Chung conducting Orc...
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, December 2012. Daniel Oren conducting Royal Opera House Orch...
Rolando Villazón Triumphantly Returns To The Stage As Don Carlo In The 2007/2008 Royal Opera House'S...
Recorded on the 13th. of August 2016 in the city Torre del Lago doing the Festival Puccini at the Gr...
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi’s m...
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Oberto (2007) Parma. Oberto was the first of Verdi’s operas to be stag...
Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's ...
Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was to be an adaptation and ...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at ...
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 2 June 1992.
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis ...