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.

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who bri...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected a...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...

The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

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...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

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

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed...