Strauss R: Salome

High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc...

Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...

A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alik...

The 1959 concert finds Callas just 1 year before the loss of her voice and although her voice is not...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fie...

Production from Antwerp. The knight Titurel has built a fortress for two sacred objects he has mira...

The story of Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American l...

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants...

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but...

Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...

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

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological st...

Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa col...

First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’ORFEO seen th...

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian pri...

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

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

Translucence, transparency – warmth’ are the qualities identified by Bernard Haitink as necessary fo...

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

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