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.

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...

Performed live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gluck's opera in three acts is conducted by ...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have al...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigol...

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

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...