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 performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovann...
Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...
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 ...
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...
A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...