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.

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...

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

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

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

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

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Parisian courtesan, Violetta meets the romantic aristocrat Alfredo and finds herself in love for the...

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

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

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 ...

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

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...