Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the music is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. In the title role, the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, joined by Luca Pisaroni, Kate Royal and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil.

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

Salzburg Festival’s first-ever performance of Charles Gounod´s most famous and most performed opera!...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Opera. ...

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "C...

Isabella is a strong, independent woman who has no intention of giving in to the clumsy advances of ...

The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto b...

Set in a Siberian prison camp, Janacek's final opera centers on the experiences of recent arrival Al...

Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and ...

The chamber opera One represents a new kind of music multimedia drama. Michel van der Aa's poetic pr...

The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strau...

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, af...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...