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.

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

Pietro Mascagni's opera recorded in 2009. Conductor Stefano Ranzani leads the orchestra and chorus o...

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

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

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

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

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

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

This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and condu...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...