David McVicar’s inventive hit production of Handel’s most popular opera sets the story of Caesar’s conquest of Egypt—and of its queen, Cleopatra—in the era of British 19th-century imperialism while also including elements of Baroque theater and Bollywood movies. David Daniels in the title role and Natalie Dessay as Cleopatra lead the cast. Christophe Dumaux is Ptolemy, Cleopatra’s brother, and Alice Coote and Patricia Bardon star as Sesto and Cornelia, son and widow of Caesar’s opponent Pompey. Early music specialist Harry Bicket conducts and plays harpsichord continuo.
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of L...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fa...
Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for T...
The prestigious Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona presents Mozart's beloved opera in an elegant, ...
Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.
Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.
Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.
A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora...
Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian li...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...