Parsifal from the 1998 Bayreuth Festival
Conspiracies and regattas form the backdrop to the fortunes of a young singer. Harassed by a heartle...
Henry Purcell's opera Dido & Aeneas, completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtak...
For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 S...
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging op...
Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. R...
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Br...
One of opera's most vivid and compelling characters, a vengeful court jester, desperately tries to p...
Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous v...
Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by C...
Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphisto...
Spain 1820. It's meal time at the cigar factory. Carmen spends her break in the square. Close by is ...
Envy and conspiracy, but also passionate loves, jealousy, revenge and final forgiveness come togethe...
A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s...
In October 2013, the Mariinsky label releases a DVD & Blu-ray of Strauss most Wagnerian of operas, D...
The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walk...
The third opera in Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Siegfried follows the adventures of the son of ...
Götterdämmerung, the fourth of Richard Wagner's four Ring operas. The cast features Manfred Jung as ...
Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the ti...
Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film tr...