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.

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...

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

A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. S...

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...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

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

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the w...

17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident th...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

I due Foscari was Verdi's sixth opera and based on Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari. Rich in intrig...

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...

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...

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.