It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willful, and lust-driven heroine. With Strauss’s groundbreaking music magnifying the degenerate atmosphere and building the erotic tension, this is one opera that is as shocking today as it was at its premiere in 1905.

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores t...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly –...

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act mas...

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN...

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Nabucco (2009) Parma. NABUCCO was Verdi’s third work for the stage and...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...

José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's bl...

The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recordi...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE EN...