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.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady ...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Originally set in the 15th c century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day ...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet in three acts, is present by the Ballet Company of the National Op...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. This concert, broadcast ...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
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...
The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hand...