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

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...

Part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Pesaro composer, Il Barbiere ...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

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...

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...

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

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

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

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

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

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

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

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