Type: Opera
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Program; Cosi Fan Tutti
Soloists: Anette Fritsch, Paola Gardina, William Shimell
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
Director: Michael Haneke
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Year: 2013

A strikingly modern take o...

Type: Opera
Lyric Tenor: Juan Diego Florez
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic and The Harmonia Symphony
Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
Location: Vienna State Opera, Austria
Year: 2015

This opera gala program presents Juan Diego Florez, a major international opera star, with notable opera singers Vittor...

Title: The Barber of Seville
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Nello Santi
Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla
Location: Zurich Opera House, Switzerland
Soloists: Vesselina Kasarova, Ruggero Raimondi.
Year: 2007

This performance of The Barber of Seville is filmed with the superior acoustics o...

Type: Opera
Location: Glyndebourne, England
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Jordan de Souza
Director: Floris Visser
Soloists: Long Long, Yaritza Veliz, Daniel Scofield, Vuvu Mpofu
Year: 2022

Puccini’s beloved story of young love, friendship, poverty, and heartbreak receives a...

Type: Opera
Composer: George Bizet
Location: Berlin State Opera
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Director: Martin Kusej
Performed by: The Chorus and Orchestra of the Berlin State Opera
Soloists: Marina Domashenko, Rolando Villazon
Year: 2006

This highly successful modern interpretation of the iconic ...

Title: La Traviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer
Orchestra: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Location: The quarry at the St. Margarethen Festival
Soloists: Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-François Borras
Directed by: Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher
Year: 2008

La Traviata...

Type: Opera
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Performed by: Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid
Soloists: Ludovic Tézier, Barbara Frittoli, Luca Pisaroni, Isabel Rey
Conductor: Jesús López Cobos
Year: 2009

From the sparkling energy of the overture to the final curtain, Emilio Sagi’s elegant a...

Type: Opera
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Title: Tosca
Location: Baden-Baden, Easter Festival
Choir: Vienna Philhamonia Chorus
Orchestra: Berliner Philhamoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Soloist: Kristina Opolais, Jonas Kaufmann
Staging: Philipp Himmelmann
Year: 2017

This impassioned performance i...

Type: Arthouse Movie
Cast: Mirjam Mesak, Ursina Lardi, Heiko Pinkowski
Director: Alex Ranisch
Location Filmed: Estonia, Germany
Year: 2022

The story of a gifted young singer whose life is ordinary yet heightened by the world of music, desire, and myth. Inspired by the Orpheus legend, the film bl...

Type: Opera Gala Concert
Tenor: Placido Domingo
Soprano: Deborah Polaski
Bass: Sir John Tomlinson
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Location: Staatsoper Berlin, Germany
Orchestra: Berlin State Opera
Year: 1993

Grammy winner and opera diva Placido Domingo performs some of the most famous overtures and ...

Type: Opera
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Performed by: The Orchestra and Choir of the Vlaamse Opera, Belgium
Conductor: Tomas Netopil
Soloists: Amir Nizar Zuabi, Omri Nitzan
Location: Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp
Year: 2009

Enjoy the biblical story of Samson, the Jewish hero betrayed by the Philistin...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin
Conductor: Matthias Pintscher
Artists: Roberto Alagna, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Ekaterina Gubanova, Martin Gantner, René Pape
Location: Berlin
Year: 2020

The Staatsoper Berlin’s Lohengrin, under Calixto Bieito’s direction, orchestrates a striking contrast be...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theater
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Artists: Sergei Semishkur, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Oleg Sychov
Location: Mariinsky Theater, St. Peterburg, Russia
Year: 2012

Prokofiev's The Gambler by the Mariinsky Theatre was an electrifying performance, combining dramatic tensi...

Type: Opera
Company: Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Germany
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi:
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Venue: Semperoper, Dresden, Germany
Soloists: Juan Diego Florez, Diana Damrau
Year: 2008

Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851) has remained one of the most loved operas ...

Type: Opera
Company: Vox Luminis
Composer: Henry Purcell
Venue: Concertgebouw Brugge, Brussels
Conductor: Lionel Meunier
Year: 2022

Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is semi chamber music, semi performance art. It shimmers with baroque splendor in this sharp performance by Vox Luminis. Loosely ins...

Type: Opera
Location: Staatsoper, Berlin
Performed by: The Berlin State Orchestra
Soloists: Dorothea Roschmann, Werner Gura
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year: 2002

Mozart’s beloved comic opera is given a fresh makeover in this colorful production. Under the bato...

Type: Opera
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Performed by: Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Year: 2012

The performance of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Teatro Real in Madrid is a captivating blend of beauty and emotion, earning high praise. This lesser-known oper...

Type: Opera
Company: Women’s and Children’s Chorus of the Saxon State Opera, Germany
Composer: Englebert Humperdinck
Conductor: Michael Hofstetter
Venue: Saxon State Opera House, Germany
Soloists: Iris Vermillion - mezzosoprano, Anna Gabler - soprano
Year: 2006

Although Hansel and Gretel is ofte...

This concert marked the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra's first annual concert celebrating their founding on May 1, 1882. The orchestra performed in the historic Smetana Hall in Prague. The program featured an all-Mozart repertoire marking the 200th anniversary of his passing. Prague embraced Moz...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Jochen Rieder
Artists: Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier
Location: Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany
Year: 2023

Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier delivered an electrifying evening of operatic drama, performing some of Verdi and P...

Type: Opera
Location: Festspeilhaus Theater, Germany
Orchestra: The Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Soprano: Ana Durlovski, Kate Royal
Tenor: Pavol Breslik
Performed by: The Berlin Radio Choir
Chorus Master: Simon Halsey
Year: 2013

The Baden-Baden Easter Festival is renowned...