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 production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized ...
Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...
Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...
This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...
Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...
A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization...
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...
The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the 'grand style'. Plus the fact that the ...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...
A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...
José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...