A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century while her life was wracked by scandal and personal suffering.

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

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

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

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

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

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountai...

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

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...

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

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

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

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

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

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...