Opera

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

This very special release includes the legendary concert of the Original Three Tenors - Jos? Carreras, Pl?cido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Zubin Mehta at the Terme di Caracalla, Rome 1990 on the eve of the Football World Cup in Italy,...

2013 documentary by Eric Schulz. DG.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the small but ambitious Spanish "Festival Internacional de M?sica Castell de Peralada", the Catalan theater collective La Fura dels Baus and it's director Carlus Padrissa have staged Gluck's opera "Orfeo ed Euridice"...