Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production, first staged at London's Royal Opera House.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...
In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, ...
Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothari...
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a sto...
The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine...
The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...
A concert performance of the most famous parts of Dvořák's opera Rusalka in the park of Liteň Castle...
Madcap physical comedy and impeccable coloratura come together for Natalie Dessay’s indelible portra...
Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...
Madama Butterfly is, with Bohème, the most loved and staged of Puccini’s works. This Blu-ray produc...
With the “Méditation”, Jules Massenet probably wrote one of the most famous melodies of our time. It...
Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. In Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation ...
The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...