Opera

The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the most active dance companies in the world. The dancers, used to practicing 5 to 7 hours a day, develop themselves by working with coaches and choreographers, but first and foremost through a close relationship with...

Based on a pair of once-banned plays by the fin de siFcle satirist Frank Wedekind, Alban Berg's operatic swan song charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, a serial seductress, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual death at the...

Blu-ray pressing. This 'live' version of Puccini's superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations and at the precise times of day as Puccini had written into his score. The action opens in Rome's beautiful 16th-century church of...

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Boasting an international cast in one of Verdi's most popular operas, Luc Bondy's moving...

For his 1996 Glyndebourne staging, radical American director Peter Sellars takes George Frideric Handel's penultimate English oratorio - a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century,...

Apollonian appreciation of beauty leads to a sensuous response and to the Dionysiac abyss in Britten's last opera, the summation of his work. "Aschenbah is destroyed physically by the plague, spiritually by an infatuation for the boy Tadzio that is...

Die Soldaten set new dimensions to the concept of opera and has been called one of the chief works of modern music theatre in the 20th century. This widely praised production was a highlight of the Salzburg Festival in 2012 featuring an ensemble of 170...

One of the most renowned and ardent supporters of zarzuela melodies is Placido Domingo. He is accomapnied by the Mozarteum Orchestra under Jesus Lopez-Cobos with his partner for the evening, Ana Maria Martinez.

Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Florian Boesch, Topi Lehtipuu, Patricia Petibon, and Bo Skovhus star in this Vienna State Opera production of the Mozart opera with Adam Fischer conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Claus Guth directing.

Edita Gruberova, Pavol Breslik, Franco Vassallo, and Alice Coote star in this Bayreuth production of the Donizetti opera with Bertrand de Billy conducting.

Directed by Don Kent.

On this world premiere recording, Grammy-winning tenor Jay Hunter Morris plays the role of Captain Ahab in Herman Meville's epic tale of a fierce, obsessive whaling-boat captain who descends into madness and puts his crew in mortal danger is brought to...