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.

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

Bohuslav Martinů's Greek Passion, which outlines a serious, very topical problem today, which is the...

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

Benjamin Britten's 1973 opera, performed in 2008 at the Liceu Opera in Barcelona, Spain.

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have al...

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

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, af...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China...

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

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

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...

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

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

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