"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels." — from the DVD back cover
The story of Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American l...
Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian myster...
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire opera...
‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wag...
Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in this production of Wagner's opera r...
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc...
La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...
‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score ...
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alik...
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...
Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint ...
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Sh...
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor r...
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart ...