Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...

Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame wit...

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. St...

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

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards int...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

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

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

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

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

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destin...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...