Opera

Simon Keenlyside, Dorothea Roeschmann, Will Hartmann, Diana Damrau, and Franz-Josef Selig star in this Royal Opera production of the Mozart opera conducted by Sir Colin Davis.

This dance film is directed and choreographed by Edouard Lock and performed by the La La La Human Steps dance company to music by David Lang. Lock uses intricate choreography for both camera and dancers, creating amazing and constantly shifting points.

The Staatsoper Berlin is back in ist place of origin: Unter den Linden! After major renovations, it reopens with Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Under the direction of Flim, J?rgenm and in the sets of acclaimed...

A bleak wind chord of E flat minor opens Wagner, Richard;'s G?tterd?mmerung. It establishes the dominant atmosphere of the piece from it's first bar: twilight, a deceptive half-light, prevails. Shadowy figures stumble towards the abyss. The last evening...

With Olimpiade" the famous poet Metastasio created one of the most popular librettos of the 18th century. It was set to music by over 60 baroque and classical composers including Vivaldi, Caldara, Hasse, Cimarosa and Donizetti. Pergolesi's composition fr

Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Clive Bayley, Matthew Rose, Susan Gorton, Elena Manistina, Graham Clark, and Duncan Rock star in this Glyndebourne proudction of the Stravinsky opera conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by John Cox, with David Hockney.

Love and revenge are fatally interwoven in Il trovatore, and barely any character survives the somber action. Based on a Spanish play in the tradition of gothic horror, it proved to be a triumph for Verdi. Within a few years it saw performances in major...

This tale of love, disguised nobility, murder, and love lost may sound like any other opera to some. But Verdi's Luisa Miller is a gem of the verismo genre. The gorgeous staging is surmounted only by a cast which includes Marcelo Alavarez, Leo Nucci,...

Scott Hendricks, Olga Pasichnyk, John Graham-Hall, and Will Hartmann star in this production of the Szymanowski opera with Sir Mark Elder conducting the Children's Chorus of the Musikhauptschule Bregenz, Camerata Silesia, Polish Radio Choir Krakow.

Tim Mead, Marie Arnet, William Berger, Andrew Radley, David Bates, Kristen Blaise, and Wolf Matthias Friedrich star in this 2009 Internationale Haendel-Festspiele Goetingen production of the Handel opera.

Newly restored and digitally remastered from the original 35 mm film, the legendary soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf stars in this acclaimed film of Richard Strauss' delightful opera, Der Rosenkavalier. This Salzburg Festival production of Strauss' great...

SCHUMANN'S GENOVEVA - A MODERN-DAY DRAMA OF THE SOULOn 25th June 1850, Schumann, Robert's only opera, Genoveva, received it's first performance at Leipzig State Theatre. It was a much-awaited event, as Schumann, widely regarded as the leading German instr