Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering and ambition of the Russian people at a critical time in their nation’s history. René Pape is riveting as the Tsar of the title, giving a commanding and charismatic performance of one of the greatest bass roles in the repertoire—his Boris is dominating, tortured, flawed and utterly unforgettable. The extraordinary cast and the Met Orchestra and Chorus are led by Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, the foremost Mussorgsky interpreter of our time.
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 201...
Teatro Regio’s 2013 revival of their highly successful 2006 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo celebrat...
La Rondine (The Swallow) is possibly the least performed of Giacomo Puccinis later operas, but is st...
Based on Gluck's masterpiece and performed entirely on location in and around the environs of the Ba...
France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenie...
A penniless poet, a young seamstress, and a lost key: Puccinis passionate opera tells the story of a...
This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’...
Alex Ollé, one of the famous La Fura dels Baus, recreates the conflict and places principal protagon...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 S...
Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pa...
O Die Zee is a modern Dutch retelling Homer's Odyssey in the form of a rock opera. It was performed ...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...