Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at the heart of an imaginary fresco truer than history itself. Along with Philippe Jordan, he reveals to the public the very first version of this great five-act opera: the version modified by Verdi himself for the work’s first performance in 1867.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

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

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

A Night in Tuscany is the first DVD released by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli of a concert held in h...

Parisian courtesan, Violetta meets the romantic aristocrat Alfredo and finds herself in love for the...

Australian Opera Chorus and Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra production of Donizetti's opera