As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating.

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena th...

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...

Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country h...

Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...

Anew production of Tannhäuser, which was premiered on 26 July 2019 and presented the Bayreuth debut ...
Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian pri...

Live broadcast of the opera performance held on November 10, 2012 at the Opéra national de Lorraine ...

This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...