Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates as Strauss conjures up the brutality of Herod's corrupt court. Richard Strausss opera at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Romeo Castellucci at the Felsenreitschule, was nothing short of a sensation. Debuting in the title role, Asmik Grigorian propelled herself to international stardom with her mesmerizing singing and acting abilities. The exceptional soprano recently won the International Opera Award as best singer.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...

Award winning singer Katherine Jenkins performs an intimate concert in London's Cadogan Hall, accomp...
Smetana's penultimate opera premiered on September 18, 1878, at the New Czech Theater. At the Nation...

The most popular Czech comic opera, with a libretto by Karel Sabina, marking the 200th anniversary o...

Famous opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky performs live songs from his album 'Deja vu' by composer Igo...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the e...

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...