A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an ideal propellant for a virtuosic mezzo-soprano to rocket from rags to riches. But in this retelling, the supporting characters soar just as high: Cinderella’s Prince, her stepfather, and the Prince’s valet are given memorable arias, and the composer rounds out his score with ingenious ensemble flourishes. A vivacious masterpiece, La Cenerentola brings stock fairy tale characters to dazzling life.

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...

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...

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

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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.

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

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

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

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

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

Pietro Mascagni's opera recorded in 2009. Conductor Stefano Ranzani leads the orchestra and chorus o...

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