Opera

Handel's operas are now so thoroughly a part of modern musical life that you might think every major opera house welcomes them. But until November 2010, when it introduced an absorbing new production of Alcina, the Vienna Staatsoper resisted them, not hav

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

In Parma, where audiences are considered the most discerning in all Italy, the benchmark for vocal artists is set traditionally high. Operagoers here are intimately familiar with the works of their favourites, from Rossini to Puccini, and know every trick

Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the Deutsche Kultur" of the Weimarer Klassik"

The Queen of Coloratura", Edita Gruberova, is the undisputed star of this recording of I puritani from the opera house in Barcelona. Her interpretation of Bellini's Elvira has certainly become one of her showpieces and her superb technique, her top notes

Starring Marc Mauillon, Bertrand Cuiller.

Ariane et Barbe-bleue makes it's premiere on DVD. Dukas's opera sees free spirit Ariane become the 6th wife of the infamous Barbe-bleue, who gives his new bride seven keys to seven doors, but prohibits the use of the last. Ariane discovers an array of...

Handa Opera On Sydney Harbor DVD

Don Giovanni Cosi Fan Tutte Le Nozze Di Figaro.

Idomeneo Re Di Creta DVD

Cristina Camero, Angel Gil, Joaquin Mulero, and Alberto Ferrero are featured in this Antonio Gades Teatro Real Spanish dance production with music by Abril, Mussorgsky, Gades, Nunez, and Zafra.

One of the first operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido. Cavalli learnt at the feet of Monteverdi, and his...