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.

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

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

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

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

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