Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired since its first performance at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, in 1867. In this 1994 recording, the youthful Roberto Alagna as Roméo and Leontina Vaduva as the unattainable Juliette lead an excellent cast in this touching portrayal of impossible love, based on Shakespeare's play.
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...
A concert performance of the most famous parts of Dvořák's opera Rusalka in the park of Liteň Castle...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...
Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....
Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.
St. Margarethen is a magnificent structure and a grand setting for Nabucco. This venue, along with t...
There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...
A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...
Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...
A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the En...
Taped live at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev conducts this landmark product...