Lawrence Brownlee

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’...

Rossini: La Cenerentola

"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful...

Rossini: La Cenerentola

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical ste...

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the r...

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch o...

The Metropolitan Opera: I Puritani

When it comes to beautiful melodies, captivating coloratura and virtuoso vocal fireworks, few operas can match...

Don Pasquale - Palais Garnier

“Foolish indeed is he who marries in old age.” Thus ends Don Pasquale: with a wise dictum not lacking in irony...

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff - Simon Rattle

Gala concert from Berlin the world famous Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in Carl Orff's fam...

Platée (Palais Garnier)

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée is a masterpiece of the French operatic repertoire and was highly regarded by cri...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2004

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berl...

Il Turco in Italia - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

In the bright sunlight of opera buffa, a handsome Turkish prince (with an agile bass voice) lands on the coast...

Donizetti: Don Pasquale

First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied wo...

Rossini: Armida

It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerman’s fancif...

Semiramide - Bayerische Staatsoper

Queen Semiramide is haunted by the ghosts of her past. Together with her lover Assur, she once murdered her hus...

Il viaggio a Reims - Barcelona

The Gran Teatre del Liceu’s 2017/2018 season opened with Rossini’s dramma giocoso Il viaggio a Reims, the “even...

The Royal Opera House: The Barber of Seville

When Rosina falls in love with mysterious young suitor Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little hel...

Rossini Opera Gala

Don Pasquale - San Francisco Opera

A young student, Ernesto, who lives with his old bachelor uncle, Don Pasquale, has refused to wed the woman of...