NAXOS DVD

Director and author Simon Stone rewrote, updated and questioned Chekhov's famous drama for the present day: with brilliant dialogue, subtle characterization and the ambivalent figures which these so...

Benet Casablancas is widely acclaimed as one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation, and his first opera, L'enigma di Lea, is the fruit of his close collaboration with award-winning...

Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king,...

Weber's 'great heroic-romantic' opera Euryanthe premiered in Vienna in 1823. It concerns the wronged Euryanthe, victim of a plot to establish her unfaithfulness, but her love imbues her with colossal...

Les F?tes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour was Rameau's first exploration of the world of Egyptian mythology. It's libretto called for magic, gods and extraordinary natural effects to which he responded with...

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composer's lifetime - the music's brittle energy, drama and eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third...

Andr? Messager's Fortunio premiered in 1907 at the Op?ra Comique, where it received acclaim that was to last decades. One of the last composers to devote his entire career to opera and operetta,...

Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini is a four-act opera set during the Renaissance period. The plot concerns an arranged marriage between Francesca and Giovanni, also known as Gianciotto, who is...

The famous traditional Chinese tale of La Fresque ('The Painting on the Wall') tells of two travellers who take shelter at a small temple, one of whom becomes so enraptured by the image of a...

Czech-born composer Jarom?r Weinberger, best known for his opera Schwanda the Bagpiper, was forced to flee to America in order to escape Nazi terror. Fr?hlingsst?rme, staged in 1933 but soon closed...

Opera confronts us with extremes of emotion, sometimes delivering unforgettable, life-changing experiences. Fuoco Sacro ('Sacred Fire') seeks out singers who have the power to pierce our hearts,...

George Frederic Handel: Messiah DVD