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.
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the ...

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including S...

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...

The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...

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

23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly –...

A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.

In “a Wagner staging to treasure” (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to l...

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

This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the w...

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Hans Werner Henze's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg".

During the Turkish artistic revolution of the 1930s, a group of pioneers staged Özsoy Opera, the fir...

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