Isabella is a strong, independent woman who has no intention of giving in to the clumsy advances of the powerful Mustafà. In the production by BAFTA winners Mosh Leiser and Patrice Caurier, which plays with prejudices about clashing cultures, Mustafà is no longer an Ottoman bey, but a shady gangster who traffics electronic goods in the port of Algiers.
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanc...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the ...
Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...