While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based on Edmond Rostand's drama of the same name. It is a moving tale of romantic misunderstanding, swashbuckling bravado and heartbreaking loyalty, in which the eloquent Cyrano feels unable to express his love for Roxane because of his famously protuberant nose except on behalf of his handsome but inarticulate friend, Christian.
In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performanc...
This performance of 2014 can be considered as a reference on account of the quality of the vocal mat...
Charming, light-hearted and fizzing with subversive wit, Neil Armfield's sparkling production of the...
Two men meet and confront each other over a woman. Visibly different in appearance, the two men enga...
Tchaikovsky's much-loved opera Eugene Onegin, a story of love, rejection and tragedy based on Pushki...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his p...
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a ke...
Andrea Chenier is a poet during the French Revolution. He and Maddalena are in love. Gerard, former ...
Isabella is a strong, independent woman who has no intention of giving in to the clumsy advances of ...
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National T...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, ...
Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild W...
Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winst...
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—incl...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of fait...
The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...