Chamber Music & Recitals

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of the Rossini rarity, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro staged Ricciardo e Zoraide with an all-star cast. Juan Diego Fl?rez makes his debut as the crusader Ricciardo, giving a "masterclass in bel...

Rossini's second masterpiece La Cenerentola premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome on the 25th of January 1817, less than a year after the first performance of his The Barber of Seville and it?s pure, perfect Rossini. In this production, a set-up made to...

Arrigo Boito's libretti, including those for Giuseppe Verdis's Otello and Falstaff, are some of the most outstanding achievements in operatic history and his own completed opera Mefistofele is present on the opera stages. On his opera Nerone Boito...

Serse is one of Handel's latest and most frequently performed operas, famous for it's marvelous opening aria "Ombra mai fu." At the center of the confusing tragicomedy, very loosely based upon the life of Xerxes I of Persia, is a powerful and lovesick...

Gounod: Faust DVD

Max Emanuel Cencic excels with his celebrated and award-winning production of George Frideric Handel's masterpiece Arminio at the International Handel Festival Karlsruhe. The remarkable counter-tenor Cencic, who dedicates himself to the revival and...

Claus Guth, who had already staged the Messiah" at the Theater an der Wien in 2009, is exactly the right person to present the oratorio "Saul", which dates from this period of upheaval in 1739, in an almost suspect manner. This could not go wrong with...

Staged By Claus Guth (Mozart - Daponte Opern) DVD

Glyndebourne Festival: Classics DVD

Life For Music & Peace DVD

The Vienna State Opera was inaugurated in 1869 with a performance of Don Giovanni", and today it is considered among the world's greatest opera houses. Now, Arthaus Musik presents a unique collection of the most outstanding productions from one of the mo

On the occasion of the Festival Barenboim in Buenos Aires, Daniel Barenboim returns to his native city to perform with the Staatskapelle Berlin the entire cycle of Brahms' symphonies. In the concert hall of Kirchner Cultural Centre, famous for it's...