Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and then abandon, featuring Donald McIntyre and Maria de Francesca-Cavazza in the starring roles. Filmed in 1985 at the Bavarian State Opera and directed by the legendary Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, the production captures every nuance of Hindemith's powerful tale of love, suspicion and betrayal. Opera Performance, recorded at 16-25 September 1985 at the National Theater in Munich.
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of L...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than S...
David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired b...
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to...
It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerm...
Live performance from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, February 25 2016.
Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering a...
Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live...
LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 201...
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by me...