Very nice set and costumes by Mauro Carosi. The procuction is well staged in the relatively small scene at Parma by Joseph Franconi Lee. Here's a performance that really works.Everything seems just right, but if you MUST have the top soloists (Pavarotti, Domingo...), look elsewhere. However, I think that the ones here (Susanna Branchini (Aida), Mariana Pentcheva (Amneris), Walter Fraccaro (Radames), Alberto Gazale (Amonasro), Carlo Malinverno (Il Re di Egitto) do a fantastic job. Also pluses for the ballet and the video production.

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

Figaro and his betrothed Susanna are preparing for their wedding day. The Count, Figaro's master, ha...

Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at ...

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

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...

Iconic songstress Barbra Streisand culminates her 13-city tour in Miami with dazzling ballads, Broad...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

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

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...

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