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.
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who bri...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...
Dorothea Roeschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Mueller-Brachmann, Werner Guera, Daniela Bruera, a...

Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outsid...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composers lifetime th...

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau'...

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...

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

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

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

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...

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.