Opera

Orlando teaches all of us that love is often responsible for our loss of reason," runs a line from Act 3 of the opera. It is a modest moral, and perhaps one not demanding of the dramatic finesse and musical diversity that Handel serves up in Orlando - fo

A production of the LA Opera House ground-breaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust. Walter Braunfels, a strong advocate of neo-Romanticism, made significant contributions to the world of twentieth-ce

This opera is supported by a musical variety of great arias, short duets and amazing choir passages that add to the unveiled expression of feelings. As a special guest the Argentinian Tenor Jos? Cura stands out with his fascinating singing and acting per

Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Grancisco Gatell, and Laura Giordano star in this 2006 Ravenna Festival production of the Donizetti opera with Riccardo Muti conducting the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini.

A mysteroius childlike woman, a murder by jealousy, an orphan: Debussy's Pell?as et M?llisande, his only completed opera, is full of magical, cryptical and deeply symbolic moments. With this work Debussy added quite literally a new dimension to the 1893 s

The first fully-staged productions of the LA Opera House groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust. A double bill of one-act operas: Viktor Ullmann's Der zerbrochene Krug, taken from a comedy by

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's fi rst collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectl

Tha?s, a mature work by the composer Massenet, Jules on the libretto by Louis Gallet, it is based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. The new production of this rarely performed work is the result of more than a year of close collaboration...

The in uential director Krzysztof Warlikowski creates an enthralling diptych that has not existed in this form before. He merges the two one-act-operas of Hungary's greatest composer B?la Bart?k and the brilliant French composer Poulenc, Francis into one

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich's opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the most heinous crime just like the Shakespearian Lady MacBeth. But Nikolai Leskov's short novel, which portrays Kathe

Mehta, Zubin conducts Aida, Verdi's most spectacular and over-the-top opera, in a new production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Starring Marco Berti, Luciana D'Intino and Hui He. Verdi's Aida is one of the most popular operas of all time.

Aribert Reimann is one of the world's most important living composers. His works are performed regularly all over the world. Now comes his latest opera - Medea. Roughly 30 authors have written works based on this ancient myth but it was the play by Franz