Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season on January 26. The production, directed by Graham Vick and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, featured staging with references to the imagery of war.

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

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 ...

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "C...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

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

Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the encha...

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

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

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

The Biblical story of Belshazzar's hubristic arrogance, set against the valour of the young warrrior...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...

Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...

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...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...