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.

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another...

The dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession...
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord ...

I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

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

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...

Vivian, Roe, JJ, Ines and a mysterious French man through a 20 year musical memory of New York City....

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

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

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

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