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.
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Classics on a Summer's Evening is an outdoor concert for an enormous audience which was staged in an...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage) is a two-act ...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena th...
Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. In Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation ...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...