I due Foscari was Verdi's sixth opera and based on Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari. Rich in intrigue, the plot tells of the final days of the famous Venetian doge, Francesco Foscari, and his illegal overthrow in 1457.

Verdi’s monumental music makes this historic epic an enduring favourite. Davide Livermore’s radiant ...

Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his p...

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walk...

The third opera in Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Siegfried follows the adventures of the son of ...

Götterdämmerung, the fourth of Richard Wagner's four Ring operas. The cast features Manfred Jung as ...

A celebrated new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring...

A mythical performance from la Monnaie - Bruxelles. Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the...

Wagner's tale of the struggle between spiritual and profane love, and of redemption through love, is...

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in this performance of Wagner's opera record...
Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber oper...

This performance of the Richard Wagner opera Logengrin was filmed in high definition for the Bayreut...

This performance of the Richard Strauss opera Frau ohne Schatten, recorded live and in high definiti...

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und...

The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final ope...

The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poe...

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...

Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame wit...

When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Be...

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tcha...