Oratorio

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

Think of today's top operatic voices, and black owners of them are as likely to come into the list as white ones: Willard White, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle to name only three. We know it wasn't always thus - Paul Robeson's struggles to be recognise

Tha?s, a mature work by the composer Massenet, Jules on the libretto by Louis Gallet, it is based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. The new production of this rarely performed work is the result of more than a year of close collaboration...

Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, was one of the twentieth century's greatest creative theatre directors, who played a hugely important role in the revival of opera as a theatrical art form. A bri

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's fi rst collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectl

A bleak wind chord of E flat minor opens Wagner, Richard;'s G?tterd?mmerung. It establishes the dominant atmosphere of the piece from it's first bar: twilight, a deceptive half-light, prevails. Shadowy figures stumble towards the abyss. The last evening...

The free man must be his own maker"Wagner, Richard;'s Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer's autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god...

Hunter's Bride" is a film opera based on the romantic opera Der Freisch?tz" by Carl Maria von Weber. Dreams and hopes of young people are told in this exquisite fairy tale. Max and Kaspar, both hunters, fight side by side in the Napoleonic Wars, as well...

The enclosed DVD video release is an ARTHAUS MUSIK presentation of no more and no less than the perfect blend of two human senses: a music lover"s eye and ear will both experience the very finest quality production. Alone the star-studded vocal ensemble

George London was one of the most impressive bass-baritones of the postwar era. He sang on the side of Callas, Maria; Renata Tebaldi and Nicolai Gedda, to name only a few, and captured the audience's hearts with his distinctive voice and his charismatic...

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...

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Regio de Parma and Unitel Classica have joined forces to create a truly unique project. All of the composer's 26 Operas, as well as the Requiem - which is closely related to the Operas -...