Opera

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

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