1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle mightily to make a living, even as others around him prosper.
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Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Extraordinary soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the volatile diva Floria Tosca for the first time at th...
Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to an...
In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Manon Lescaut's production was updated and it worked. Highly professional production with two of the...
Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has off...
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 201...
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...
A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Str...
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. Hi...