Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and props (often formed of human beings): Their 30 computer projections and organic structures built of athletic performers that recall Cirque du Soleil are predestined for Wagner's visionary expressive world.
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
Without question, this is an incredibly bizarre production. The revised storyline makes little sense...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage) is a two-act ...
A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Madama Butterfly is, with Bohème, the most loved and staged of Puccini’s works. This Blu-ray produc...