This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. It is beautiful in every way--vocally, scenically, sonically, and visually--and a worthy record of Van Dam's farewell. Van Dam is just shy of 70 in this production, but you would never guess it from his singing or stage movements--a consummate artist. His is a noble portrayal and deeply moving. The Act V death scene is a model of beautiful singing and acting.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and condu...

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

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 ...

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...

José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...

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

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her ro...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in ...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.