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 soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons ...

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...

France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenie...

A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana...

This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...

Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy...

Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring ...

Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.

A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...

Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...

Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...