This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...

Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...

A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...

Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.

Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...

This is a performance of Wagner's three-act opera Der fliegende Holländer ("The flying Dutchman"), p...

It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once ...

Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...

This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800...