The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act o...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...