L'incoronazione di Poppea

As comparably short operas, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are often billed together, but seldom...

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

The sensational hit of Salzburg's 2008 festival season arrives on DVD! Starring tenor Rolando Villaz...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

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

Tosca is a melodrama of love, betrayal and death set in the revolutionary unrest of 1800. The story...

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

A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.

Early Rossini has a youthful, buoyant vibrancy about it, even in the dark swirls of drammi per music...

In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flo...

This is an excellent version of one of the greatest of all comic operas, featuring superb singing an...

An all-star cast assembled for the Met’s first-ever performances of Rossini’s romantic retelling of...

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

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

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846)...

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composers lifetime th...

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