Günther Groissböck

Der Rosenkavalier

In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the oper...

Doktor Faust

Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning - is given...

Eugene Onegin

In Trelinski's timeless production he leads a superb, first-class young cast headed by Artur Ruzinski as Onegin...

Idomeneo

Mozart's opera telling the story of the King of Crete who returns from Troy to find his his son in love with th...

Soldier Monika

Monika Donner is a transsexual elite soldier, a front figure for gender rights and an author celebrated by the...

Tannhäuser - Wiener Staatsoper

It is about nothing less than love. This is what the Wartburg singing community asks for, and this is what Tann...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold

Frank Castorf revolutionised German-language theatre in the post-Berlin Wall era, bringing to the stage intelle...

Verdi: Otello

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic...

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’...

Met Opera 2022/23: Der Rosenkavalier

The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opp...

The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre

Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera...

The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring J...

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House

When Strauss and Hofmannsthal wrote «Der Rosenkavalier» – setting it in an imaginary Rococo Vienna and yet clos...

Wagner: Tannhäuser

From the Gran Teatre del Liceu - one of the great Wagner singers of our time in the lead role, Peter Seiffert i...

The Marksman

Max, a young hunter, must win a shooting competition to claim the hand of his beloved Agathe. But on the eve of...

The Metropolitan Opera: Lohengrin

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his re...

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

With their “musical comedy” in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his brilliant librettist Hugo von Hofm...

Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio

Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Op...

Dvorak: Rusalka

A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, wit...

Tristan und Isolde

Production Bayreuth 2024. There is no arrival in Tristan and Isolde, only the longing for the unattainable, for...

Guillaume Tell

Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú...

Der Rosenkavalier

André Heller is staging "Der Rosenkavalier" (his first opera production) at the Berlin State Opera. The story o...

Fierrabras

Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Cha...

La Clemenza di Tito

This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It’s well paced, well...

Aida

The Zurich Opera presents a stunning new production of Verdi’s most popular, most spectacular work. Responding...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meis...

Rusalka - Bayerische Staatsoper

Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka’s lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with...

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies - Philippe Jordan

Mozart: Die Zauberflote

From the Queen of the Night's vocal pyrotechnics to Papageno's chirpy birdsongs, The Magic Flute is one of Moza...

Beethoven - Complete symphonies