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.

A historical film with balladic features set in 1348, when Europe was struggling with the greatest p...

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

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

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

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

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spell...
A concert performance of the most famous parts of Dvořák's opera Rusalka in the park of Liteň Castle...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

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

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmi...

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

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After nearly drowning in ...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...