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.
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveile...
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...
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...
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the cont...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Christmas is now more beautiful and cosy than ever! Experience Christmas in London, together with An...
France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenie...
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
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...
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of S...
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...