Tag: opera

Dialogues des Carmélites

Performed at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes in 2013. Francis...

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

Kazushi Ono and Laurent Pelly offer audiences an inspired and...

The Girl of the Golden West

A celebrated new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West...

Boris Godounov

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who...

Elektra

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this...

Mefistofele

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele:...

Rigoletto

Rigoletto, hunchbacked jester, plans to take revenge on his master,...

Die Soldaten

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose...

Mozart: The Magic Flute

A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a...

Così fan tutte

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this filmed studio...

Britten: Gloriana

Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera,...

Il Mefistofele

Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and...

StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos

Glyndebourne's wartime history as a home for evacuee children is...

Turandot

Puccini s last and unfinished opera tells the tale of...

Khovanshchina

The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is...

Rêve Kakudji

Serge Kakudji is a twenty-year-old Congolese counter tenor who fell...

Becoming Traviata

How can emotion come to light on the opera set?...

La Bohème

Live performance of Puccini's opera at the Salzburg Festival in...

Purcell: The Indian Queen

A superb adaptation of Purcell's the Indian Queen, staged and...

Ariadne Auf Naxos

Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss'...

San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto

One of opera's most vivid and compelling characters, a vengeful...

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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score,...