Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to bring Rossini’s effervescent comedy closer to them than ever before. The stellar cast leapt to the challenge with irresistible energy and bravura vocalism. Juan Diego Flórez is Count Almaviva, who fires off showstopping coloratura as he woos Joyce DiDonato’s spirited Rosina—with assistance from Peter Mattei as the one and only Figaro, Seville’s beloved barber and man-about-town.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

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

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

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

Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

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

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...