Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation. Director Bartlett Sher’s “brilliant and inspired new production … is a revelation” (Huffington Post), and has already won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the sumptuous score.
The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the 'grand style'. Plus the fact that the ...
A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...
Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...
Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothari...
I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...
A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...
Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovann...
To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...
Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...
Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame wit...
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...