The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final masterpiece: Jonas Kaufmann in the title role of the fool “made wise by compassion”, René Pape as Gurnemanz, the veteran Knight of the Grail, Katarina Dalayman as Kundry, Peter Mattei is Amfortas, the anguished ruler of the Grail’s kingdom, and Evgeny Nikitin sings the evil magician Klingsor.

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...

José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the ...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

Directed and produced by Beth McCarthy-Miller, the concert was held and filmed on July 27, 2003 at H...

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Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...