Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buffa. A native of Venice, the cradle of the commedia dell’arte, Damiano Michieletto is sensitive to the burlesque vein of Rossinian music. He transposes the action of this "unnecessary precaution" into a contemporary Seville inspired by the cinema of Almodóvar. Bartolo’s monumental building, in which Figaro swirls in free electron, allows the director to give free rein to his crazy imagination.

The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strau...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

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

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...