It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of the largest and best preserved Roman construction of its kind, and with over 22,000 seats it is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular open-air venues of the world! The revered master of opera Franco Zeffirelli, who died shortly before the premiere of Il Trovatore, created a legendary scenery with groups of giant sized armoured knights, a fortress turning into a luminous cathedral, an enormous choir, horses, breathtaking fights: “his perhaps best arena production” (Opernglas). It brings Anna Netrebko to the Arena of Verona where she is giving her much-anticipated debut in one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas.
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein i...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
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Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Concert and documentary celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Moscow’s Zaryadye Hall
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. This concert, broadcast ...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...