The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from the ancient Greek myth. Patrice Chéreau’s acclaimed production—the last staging he worked on before his death in 2013—also stars Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Elektra’s nightmare-haunted mother, Adrianne Pieczonka as Chrysothemis, her sister, and Eric Owens as Orest, their brother, whose return home brings their family story to a terrifying climax. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the monumental and highly influential score.

The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...

Recorded at the Musiektheater, Amsterdam on 21 & 25 January 2008. Performed by De Nederlandse O...

Mythological hero Scipio must choose between Fortune and Constancy in this superb 2006 Salzburg Fest...

Set in a Siberian prison camp, Janacek's final opera centers on the experiences of recent arrival Al...

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...

Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...

Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor r...

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...

A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the ...

Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buff...

In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a mas...

Messiaen's breathtakingly intense opera on the life of St Francis of Assisi stars Rod Gilfry as the ...

Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him,...

The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s final mas...

A tragic and secretive romance ensues over many years after two men meet while herding sheep on Brok...

The Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert Humperdinck ...

It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once ...

Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, defies bad omens and supe...

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production,...