Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, David Butt Philip plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime.

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

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...

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

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

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of th...

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

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