A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strives to save his daughter from a duke’s licentious clutches, but can't part with the feeling that a curse looms over all of his actions. In Rigoletto, the composer introduces several of his most iconic arias and duets—as well as an 11th-hour quartet that counts among the finest moments in opera.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...