1982 revival of 1974 John Copley production.

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

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

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

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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

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

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...

Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...