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.

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

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

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

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

In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field...

Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...