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: 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...

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
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: 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
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...

Type: Opera
Location: Aldeburgh Beach, England
Event: The Aldeburgh Festival
Orchestra: The Britten-Pears Orchestra
Choirs: Chorus of Opera North, Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Year: 2013

The 2013 Aldeburgh Festival featured an open-air performan...

Type: Opera
Location: Festspeilhaus Theater, Germany
Orchestra: The Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Soprano: Eva-Maria Westbroek
Performed by: The Philharmonia Choir Vienna
Year: 2014

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s performance of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut,” conducted by Sir S...

Type: Orchestra and Choir
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Garnier
Location: Alexandra Palace Theater, United Kingdom
Year: 2020

Handel's Semele is a unique work, neither a traditional opera nor an oratorio, blending secular themes with drama...

Type: Opera
Location; La Monnaie Theater, Belgium
Conductor: Alain Altinoglu
Year: 2022

Puccini: Il Trittico is a masterful showcase of Puccini's dramatic intensity, featuring three one-act operas: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi. The production highlights Puccini’s rich orchestr...

Type: Opera
Performed by: La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor: Adam Fischer
Location: La Monnaie, Belgium
Year: 2012

“La Monnaie: Dvořák: Rusalka” is a captivating performance of Dvořák’s opera, conducted by Ádám Fischer and directed by Stefan Herheim. The opera tells the tragic...

Type: Opera
Performed by: The Resident Choir and Orchestra of Teatro Real.
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Location: Teatro Real, Spain
Year: 2012

In Stravinsky’s “Perséphone” is performed as a mesmerizing melodramatic opera in three scenes. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and directed by Peter Sel...

Type: Opera
Location: Mariinsky Theater, Belgium
Performed by: The Mariinsky Theatre Opera Company
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Year 2012

“Die Frau ohne Schatten” by Richard Strauss is a grand opera with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Premiered in 1919, it features a complex narrative and lu...

Type: Opera
Event: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival
Location: Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Hall, Russia
Performed by: The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra and The Choral Ensemble of Soloists Tebe Poem
Conductor: Vladimir Lande
Baritone: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Year: 2019

The lead singer at the Dmitri Hvo...

Type: Opera
Performed by: The Mariinsky Orchestra and Mariinsky Chorus
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Location: Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia
Year: 2012

Nikolai Gogol was a Ukrainian playwright known for blending realism with the grotesque and satirical, often addressing 19th-century soci...

Type: Opera
Location: La Scala Theater, Italy
Conductor: Misjel Vermeiren
Soloists: Marina Rebeka, J'Nai Bridges, Roberto Tagliavini, Ismael Jordi
Year: 2021

Donizetti Queens in Concert was a vibrant celebration of Donizetti's operatic queens. The concert featured some of the most iconic and d...