Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova in Zürich Opera's starkly palpable staging of Bizet's ever-popular Carmen. The production sees Don José (Kaufmann) abandon his teenage attitudes in pursuit of Kasarova's free and independent Carmen - realising too late that his self-control has vanished, along with his youth.
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordin...
Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...
I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...
Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015
After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...
Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovann...
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the S...
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to ...
L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...
A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...
Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor ...