Opera

This highly acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a powerful and fascinating re- interpretation of Dvorak's fairy-tale opera Rusalka, was a revelation: The young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristine Opolais, whose performance was...

An opera buff, a comedy, a masterpiece of intrigues, lies and love! 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' (The Barber of Seville), an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, from the Teatro Regio di Parma. The production stars Dmitry Korchak as Il Conte d'Almaviva,...

Perhaps no opera is closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Michael Grandage's staging is the seventh production there and is set in a 60s ambiance. Marshaled by the "ideal pacing" of Robin...

Philip Cumbus, Trystan Gravelle, William Mannering, Jack Farthing, and more star in this production of Shakespeare's play produced by Doninic Dromgoole with original music by Claire van Kampen.

La Sonnambula is an idyllic, classical, and intense melodrama with extremely fine, lyrical, musicality. It combines tender and melancholic sentiments with tragic moving passion. The opera takes place in a natural and innocent atmosphere, which clearly...

World premiere on Blu-ray! Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. In Beatrice very diverse elements coexist: there are music patterns already experimented in Norma and used here to their utmost potential, side by side with...

Show Boat Blu-Ray

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina is his most important work and a challenging opera to stage. This masterpiece weaves a fictitious tale around Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - one in which he fears losing...

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who a

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who...

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera. Papageno is the presenter, who a

Brignoli Blu-Ray