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

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

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

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

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

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

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

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

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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