As bright and colorful as penny candy, this visually arresting production of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" puts a twist on the classic fairy tale upon which it's based by uprooting the action to modern times. Director Laurent Pelly's interpretation, which premiered at Glyndebourne in 2008, finds Hansel, Gretel and their family taking shelter in a cardboard box while the witch's stock of goodies lines the shelves of a supermarket.

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

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

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

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

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

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

The Biblical story of Belshazzar's hubristic arrogance, set against the valour of the young warrrior...

I usually don't like classic operas with modernized production and costumes. This one is an exceptio...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

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

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...