The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession, greed, and a secret in winning at cards… In 2005, the Opéra Bastille mounted a compelling production featuring Vladimir Galouzine as the mad lover Hermann, Hasmik Papian as the doomed Lisa, and Irina Bogatcheva as the mysterious Comtesse.
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
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...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field...