In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau’s opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly revolutionary duo – Jeanne Candel and Raphaël Pichon – get to grips with this work for the Opéra Comique.
This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...
Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late...
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...
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...
Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the ...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...