Opera

Two late and baleful tragedies by Euripides focus on the ill-starred daughter of Agamemnon. In Aulis, the drama of Iphigenia rages until she is spared. Having escaped to Tauris, Iphigenia finds herself compelled to kill her own brother before the fickle...

Orlin Anastassov, Alessandra Marianelli, Pavel Zubov, Ian Storey, Vladimir Vaneev, Peter Bronder, Vasily Ladjuk, Vladimir Matorin, Luca Casalin, Nadezhda Serdjuk, Evgeny Akimov, Elena Sommer, John Paul Huckle, Oliviero Giorgiutti, and Stier Matthias.

Anders J. Dahlin, Evgueniy Alexiev, Sine Bundgaard, and Anna Maria Panzarella star in this Drottningholm production of the Rameau opera conducted by Christophe Rousset.

Nadja Michael, Thomas Moser, and Michael Volle star in this 2008 Royal Opera production of the Strauss opera conducted by Philippe Jordan and directed by David McVicar.

Alina Cojocatu, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nunez, and Martin Harvey perform in this Royal Ballet production of the Adam ballet conducted by Boris Gruzin.

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II's much-loved comic operetta includes outstanding performances from a cast led by Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Ragnar Ulfung and Hukan Hagegurd with the Glyndebourne Chorus...

Misha Didyk, Emily Magee, Lado Ataneli, Ludovic Tezier, Elena Zaremba, Ewa Podles, Mikhail Vekua, Fransisco Vas, and Claudia Schneider star in this Gran Teatre del Liceu production of the Tchaikovsky opera conducted by Michael Boder.

Eva-Maria Westbroek, Susan Bickley, Jeremy White, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Lore Lixenberg, Grant Doyle, Gerald Finley, Andrew Rees, Alan Rees, Alan Oke, Peter Hoare, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Allison Cook, and Dominic Rowntree star in this Royal Opera...

One of the first operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido. Cavalli learnt at the feet of Monteverdi, and his...

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...