Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in the effervescent title role. Tenor Michael Fabiano is her ardent admirer, Chevalier des Grieux, with Maurizio Benini conducting Laurent Pelly’s enchanting production.

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 producti...

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized ...
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to ...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...

Australian Opera Chorus and Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra production of Donizetti's opera

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

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

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a...

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...