In June 2014, London’s Royal Opera House presented Jonathan Kent’s new production of Manon Lescaut. With a stellar cast, including Kristīne Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann in the roles of the young lovers Manon Lescaut and Chevalier des Grieux, Jonathan Kent brings this 19th century classic to a 2014 setting, both non-naturalistic and theatrical. Supporting the action on stage is the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with their venerable Music Director Antonio Pappano.

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

Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

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

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

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the 'grand style'. Plus the fact that the ...

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

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