The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–1915) "Die ersten Menschen" ("The First Humans"), completed in 1914 to a libretto by Otto Borngräber interpreting the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden through symbolism and the then nascent science of psychoanalysis. This production was part of the Holland Festival of Amsterdam.

Set ten years after the events at the Paris Opera House, the Phantom has fled to New York, where he ...

While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Ab...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

Massenet's opera centres on its charming but contrary heroine, the vivacious young Manon who longs f...

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, ...

AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Ra...

Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1988. What sets this IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA apart f...

The spectacular production from the 2007 festival at the historic Arena di Verona. Renowned Verdi si...

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female th...

Plácido Domingo, who just celebrated his 50th stage anniversary in Vienna - incredibly - continues t...

The opening work of the 2019-2020 season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma was Verdi's grand opera ba...

Including world-class artists such as Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura,...

Opera confronts us with extremes of emotion, sometimes delivering unforgettable, life-changing exper...

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera ...

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreo...

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as ...

Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great ac...

O Die Zee is a modern Dutch retelling Homer's Odyssey in the form of a rock opera. It was performed ...

Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berl...