The caption on the DVD sleeve reads “This Is how Verdi should be played!” and I could not agree more. The trio of principals: Ribeiro, Lungu, and Dalla Benetta , offer youthful exhuberance and intensity, good looks and glorious voices. The rest of the cast is equally good. Superb conductor, traditional production, great staging. Anf of course, Verdi’s exquisite music. It has renovated my faith in the totality of the Verdi canon, not only its most performed titles.

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

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

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

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

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...

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

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

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

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

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

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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

The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recordi...

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothari...

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

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...