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...

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
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...