“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the talents of stage directors Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps (members of the wildly successful French comedy troupe Les Deschiens) and the accomplished music director François-Xavier Roth.
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...
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
Premiered immediately before the enduring masterpieces Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Traviata, Lui...
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
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...
Recorded at the Musiektheater, Amsterdam on 21 & 25 January 2008. Performed by De Nederlandse O...
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esm...
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly –...
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in...