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 Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...
A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization...
Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 producti...
On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...
This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...
A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the S...
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
Francesco Cileo wrote this opera about the real life Adriana Lecouvreur, a French actress from the 1...