23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly – legend has it in just 13 days – which Rossini attributed to ‘facility and lots of instinct’. The opera, characterized by youthful energy and bold wit, has all the ingredients for comic chaos: an imprisoned young woman, her lecherous guardian and a young noble suitor. Skilfully plotting behind the scenes is Figaro, an irrepressible and inventive character in whom many have seen a resemblance to the young Rossini himself. The score fizzes with musical brilliance, from Figaro’s famous entrance aria to the frenzy of the Act I finale. This recording sees Joyce DiDonato (Rosina) bring literal meaning to the old theatrical motto Break a leg! She did just that in an earlier show but was determined to finish her commitment and was re-staged into the production to allow for the additional challenges that come when a leading lady in a lively physical role must wheel around the other performers...
The Queen of the Night has begged Prince Tamino to free her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the...
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne ...
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.
TDK presents a recording of Puccini’s heart-breaking opera from one of the best opera houses of the ...
"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge...
Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Pro...
Recorded on the 13th. of August 2016 in the city Torre del Lago doing the Festival Puccini at the Gr...
Live performance Zürich, May and July 2006. Modern dress performance which generated mixed reactions...
Live performance filmed at the Innsbrucker Festwochen on 6 October 2006 at the Festspielhaus in Bade...
A live recording of Don Giovanni from the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, recorded on May 23rd 2013.
Very nice set and costumes by Mauro Carosi. The procuction is well staged in the relatively small sc...
Aida (2009) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / Italian. Live from the Met 2009.
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Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country h...