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.

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

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

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

Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Dynamic are proud to present, for the first time on Blu-ray, Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra ‘The Thieving ...

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of th...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the e...