Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera’s most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to highlight the savagery and excitement of Verdi’s tale of misdirected revenge. Paolo Gavanelli is vocally and theatrically electrifying as the hunchback anti-hero, acclaimed soprano Christine Schäfer is his doomed daughter, and superstar tenor Marcelo Alvarez is her fickle lover. With superb playing from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, it adds up to a thrilling Rigoletto for both opera aficionados and newcomers.

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Nabucco (2009) Parma. NABUCCO was Verdi’s third work for the stage and...

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Macbeth (2006) Parma. Macbeth is one of the most multi-layered, profou...
Conducted by Riccardo Muti, the master of the Scala in Milan for twenty years, the Verdian melodrama...

Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattr...

Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's ...

Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.

This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel...

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violet...

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and C...

Live recording at Parma Verdi Festival 6 October, 2008. Massimo Zanetti conducting Orchestra e Coro ...

Both Florez and Diana Damrau brought their bel canto expertise and superb vocalism to the service of...
Live performance at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, September 25-28 2010. Myung-Whun Chung conducting Orc...

Live performance at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, June 2004. Original stage production by Operhaus ...

tt0253843. Il Trovatore (1985) Verona. Verdi / Italian. Reynald Giovaninetti conducts the Orchestra...

This recording of "Il Trovatore" was held in Parma in 2010. The production is minimalistic. The scen...