Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him in danger as the women he's betrayed -- and their suitors -- begin to seek revenge. A modern-day setting proves the timeless nature of Mozart's popular opera, performed with the Vienna Philharmonic as part of an epic presentation of all 22 of the composer's stage works at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, in honor of his 250th birthday.
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1988. What sets this IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA apart f...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...