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.
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana...
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffit...
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy...
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring ...
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveile...
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...
A comic opera in two acts about the fickleness of women performed by HAMU students at the Disk... Th...
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
Julie Taymor’s kaleidoscopic production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an encore p...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...