Alain Vernhes

Massenet: Thaïs

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to Go...

Manon

Live 2001 recording at the Bastille opera in Paris in a production for l'Opéra de Paris by Gilbert Deflo. High...

Mireille

In 2009, Frédéric Mistral’s tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production...

Dialogues des Carmelites

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide rep...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccane...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

Massenet: Werther

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the mar...

The Love for Three Oranges

Prokofiev's enchantingly surreal commedia dell’arte masterwork is turned into a spectacular triumph of total th...

L'heure espagnole

Hamlet

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mothe...

Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites

Live Opera performance of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov