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
Location: Vienna State Opera House, Austria
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Program: Nabucco
Conductor: Ernst Marzendorfer
Performed by: The Vienna State Orchestra and Opera
Soloist: Leontyne Price
Year: 1981

Aida is one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most famous operas, known for its scale, ...

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...

Type: Opera
Location: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performed by: Vox Luminis
Conductor: Lionel Meunier
Year: 2018

Vox Luminis, the renowned vocal ensemble, delivers this stunning performance of Henry Purcell’s semi-opera, King Arthur. This iconic masterpiece of Baroque music is m...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado
Artist: Tatiana Pavlovskaya
Location: Baden-Baden, Germany
Year: 2012

Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore is a perfect blend of romance and comedy, making it light-hearted and charming. The opera follows the sweet yet hum...

Type: Orchestra and Choir
Orchestra: Freiburger Barockorchester
Choir: State Opera Choir
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Artists: Anna Prohaska, Magdalena Kozena
Location: State Opera, Berlin
Year: 2018

If you don’t love Baroque music, you might still enjoy Hippolyte et Aricie because of the dramat...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Madrid Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Artists: Manuela Uhl, Christopher Maltman, Peter Lodahl
Location: Teatro Real, Portugal
Year: 2016

The Prohibition of Love is one of Wagner’s rarely performed early operas, blending Italian opera influences with hints of his...

Nabucco is one of Verdi's earliest triumphs, a work that introduced the powerful choral writing that was the hallmark of his style. Best known for the well-known and iconic “Va, pensiero” chorus, Nabucco combines emotions with themes of exile, identity, and longing. Rooted in the rich traditions ...

Type: Opera
Composer: George Bizet
Program: The Pearl Fishers
Location: The Capitol Theater, Toulouse, France
Orchestra: Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Conductor: Victorien Vanoosten
Soloists: Jean-Francois Borras, Florian Sempey, Julie Fuchs
Year: 2024

Although The Pearl Fishers is ...

Type: Opera
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Program: Attila
Orchestra and Choir: The Mariinsky Theater
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Soloists: Ildar Abdrazakov, Anna Markarova
Location: The Mariinsky Theater, Russia
Year: 2012

Conductor Valery Gergiev brings dramatic weight to Verdi’s restless score of Att...

Type: Opera
Composer: Henry Purcell
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Orchestra: MusicAeterna Orchestra of the Perm Opera
Choir: Choir of the Perm Opera
Soloists: Julia Bullock, Christophe Dumaux, Noah Stewart
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Director: Peter Sellars
Co-production: Perm Opera and B...

Type: Light Orchestra
Orchestra: Verbier Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Manfred Honeck
Soloist: Bryn Terfel, Rene Pape
Location: Verbier Festival, Switzerland
Year of Production: 2009

Enjoy highlights from Don Giovanni with standout excerpts and a single-evening glimpse into masterful opera wit...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Leipzig Opera
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Location: Baden-Baden, Germany
Year: 2005

Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera remains a staple of opera for its thrilling drama, timeless themes, and lush music. The story of love, betrayal, and revenge unfolds against the tensi...