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.
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
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...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
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.
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
While excerpts of the score are popular today, like the Hungarian March in the first part or Marguer...
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...