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.
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera ba...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein i...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the fut...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whe...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...