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.

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destin...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

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

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

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...

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

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

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

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

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

Product Description ••••• A complete 1978 performance of this classic ballet stars the magnificent...