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.

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

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

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

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

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

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

I usually don't like classic operas with modernized production and costumes. This one is an exceptio...

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...

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

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...

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

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