The Met — Il Trovatore

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

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

There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...

First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...

Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint...

Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...

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

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

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

The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has create...

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

Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return wit...

Beethoven's opera Fidelio, conducted by Karl Böhm, featuring Gwyneth Jones as Leonore and James King...

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in...

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her ca...

Hammerstein and Kern’s Show Boat is a true classic of American musical theater - a tale of life on t...

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

‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score...