Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-language comedy opera described by the international press as “pure, unadulterated fun” and reminds us of her comic gifts and her naturalness as a stage actor — as well as her total sympathy with the music of Rossini.

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

In 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of Napoleon. Se...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood a...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of th...

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards int...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. T...