Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...