Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "One of the earliest operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan Hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido." — from the DVD back cover

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE EN...

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

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

St. Margarethen is a magnificent structure and a grand setting for Nabucco. This venue, along with t...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...