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.

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

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

Set in a Siberian prison camp, Janacek's final opera centers on the experiences of recent arrival Al...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has alrea...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

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

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...

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

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, af...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

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...

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...