Production of Mozart's opera about the Spanish nobleman who seeks to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the hands of the Pasha. Karl Bohm conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayerischen Staatsoper with the right balance of serious purpose and light lilting lyricism. This production, staged by August Everding with set and costume design by Max Bignens, was filmed from a live television production relayed on the First Programme (Channel 1) of German television on 25 April 1980,
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...
Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wi...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongsid...
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunci...
Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at ...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...
The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recordi...
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Nabucco (2009) Parma. NABUCCO was Verdi’s third work for the stage and...
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the golds...
Part of Tutto Verdi series - Macbeth (2006) Parma. Macbeth is one of the most multi-layered, profou...
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in...