The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with people who look like fugitives from Mad Max and who interact with Mefistofele. The orchestra and choir are wonderful. Rene Pape gives a nuanced interpretation with a certain amount of sardonic humour under the evil. His singing and acting are first rate, as is that of Kristine Opolais and Joseph Calleja.

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the ...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz a...

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...
Dorothea Roeschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Mueller-Brachmann, Werner Guera, Daniela Bruera, a...

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous je...
Easter is a five story-arc opera about the coming-of-age of juking. The first of its tales aptly dea...

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-oper...

A new generation of rising stars shines in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s most ...

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After ...

A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eury...

Donald Runnicles directs the San Francisco Opera in this lavish production of Giacomo Puccini’s fina...

Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine...

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...

CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...