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Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy C...

This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a ke...

This production is a gala affair; the sets are traditional (evocative of 18th-19th century Spain); t...

In celebration of Verdi's 200th birthday in 2013, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence produced the compos...

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfan...

Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berl...

Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...

Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his p...

The delightful light operatic farce by Johann Strauss is presented at the Morbisch Lake Festival (Se...

This live from the Met telecast from October 1996 of Giordano’s infrequently performed verismo gem i...

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...

The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, w...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863,...

The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in t...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard...