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.

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...

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

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard W...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

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

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...