Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian mysteries, heroic-comic opera? Die Zauberflöte is heard more often and has been more frequently performed, discussed, queried and interrogated than almost any other work in the history of opera. It is rare for the mysteriousness and multiformity of a work to be adjured with such mantric intensity. It is equally rare for a work to enjoy such undisputed success despite all these debates – and for over two hundred years at that.
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at...
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...
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that ...
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Roc...
This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well p...
One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strang...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady ...
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...
In Baden-Baden, Nayo Titzin follows the producers of the opera Don Giovanni, created for the Innsbru...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...