Opera

Juha Uusitalo, John Daszak, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Matti Salminen, Stephen Milling, Anna Larsson, Christa Mayer, Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Gerhard Siegel, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers star.

Nicholas Hytner's enchanting production, sung in the original Czech, is conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, a master of the best Jan?'ek style. Through myriad shifts of scene, the episodic story is presented in brightly-coloured sets and costumes of bliss

Arguably Mussorgsky, Modest's greatest work, Khovanshchina was incomplete at the time of his death and so this glorious production, from the Vienna State Opera, employs Shostakovich's scoring with the addition of the final chorus composed by Stravinsky in

For their perfection of composition and link with important literary works, the two operas Wozzeck and Lulu - the latter left unfinished at the composer's death - must rank among the most outstanding music theatre pieces of the 20th century. In April 1914

This Cologne Opera production, one of Rossini's most brilliant compositions, was directed by Michael Hampe and boasts a star-studded cast with Ileana Cotrubas, Carlos Feller, David Kuebler and Alberto Rinaldi. Rossini's opera is a perennial favourite and

The double title of the opera "Tannh?user oder der S?ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg", which had it's grand premiere on 19 October 1845 under Wagner"s direction in the Hoftheater in Dresden, is already an indication of how Wagner"s work unites two circles of...

A superlative staging of Puccini's Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! The popular tragedy is sung by a dream team cast of excel

Included are works by Handel, Delibes, Shakespeare, Purcell, Mozart, Herold, Puccini, Cavalli, Henze, Humperdinck, and Tchaikovsky, performed by Carlos Acosta, Darcey Bussell, Sarah Connolly, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Adetomiwa Edun, Gerald Finley.

Rimsky-Korsakov epitomises the fantastic side of the Russian soul. Regarding opera as essentially the most enchanting and intoxicating of lies, he drew on his country's rich folk heritage to create a fairy-tale world in which the fanciful and commonplac

Sliding marble walls, a mosaic-like fl oor, a leafless tree centre-stage, elegant costumes - with it's young cast and a superlative performance by Roberto Frontali as Simon Boccanegra, this production has all the ingredients to leave a lasting impression.

When Canadian opera director Robert Carsen produced his intense and cogent staging of Poulenc, Francis's compelling opera Les Dialogues des Carm?lites at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam in 2001, it impressed audiences and critics alike, and also gained

La forza del destino" (The Force of Fate), premiered in St. Petersburg 1862, is one of Verdi's most important opera compositions. It's plot is complicated and combines a sequence of interlaced unfortunate strokes of fate. Donna Leonora is the centre of ev