Staging directors Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser infuse German composer Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera with more than a dollop of black humor in this 2008 London performance that's both enchanting and menacing. Angelika Kirchschlager and Diana Damrau play Hansel and Gretel, respectively, and beloved British baritone Thomas Allen portrays their father in an outstanding production led by maestro Colin Davis.

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...

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

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...

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

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordin...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of th...

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

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