Stage director Jean-Louis Grinda and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo present Verdi’s early smash hit opera Ernani. Ramon Vargas heads up an incredible cast in the heroic title role and maestro Daniele Callegari leads the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in the sumptuous melodies of Verdi’s score.
At Salzburg Festival, Cecilia Bartoli shines as Ariodante with her dazzling coloratura in a highly a...
Manon Lescaut's production was updated and it worked. Highly professional production with two of the...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...
In October 2013, the Mariinsky label releases a DVD & Blu-ray of Strauss most Wagnerian of operas, D...
Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous v...
"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Ex...
A Scottish lighthouse goes dark. A visiting supply ship finds the building in order. But the keepers...
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verd...
“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. Hi...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not ...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 201...
Franco Corelli is featured in this 1954 filmed version of Leoncavallo's opera, along with Tito Gobbi...
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a...
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American so...
The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy bu...
The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has bo...