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.

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

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

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

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

From the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Terme di Caracalla "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Director Jesus Lope...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

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

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

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

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

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

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...

CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...