Marcelo Álvarez

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...

Semperopernball

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore

Verdi’s IL TROVATORE again storms the Met stage in a star-studded, anvil-wielding cast , including Sondra Radva...

Verdi: Luisa Miller

In a Tyrolean village in the first half of the 17th century. Luisa, Miller’s daughter, and Carlo, a young man s...

Rigoletto

Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera’s mos...

Manon

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

Verdi: Il Trovatore

In medieval Spain, the gypsy Azucena abducted the son of the Count of Luna to avenge her mother, whom the old c...

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera

Passion, loyalty and political conspiracy are the three pillars of Un ballo in maschera (1859), the 'most opera...

The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera

David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired by film noir...

Rigoletto

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to his cynical...

La Boheme

Bruno Bartoletti conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in this production of Puccini's ope...

The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the two operas...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

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

The Met — Tosca

Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the...

Tosca

In a mythical yet real Rome, from the shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle to the terrace of Caste...

Puccini: Tosca (Arena di Verona)

Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and t...

Werther

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian...

Adriana Lecouvreur

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano...

Lucrezia Borgia - Teatro degli Arcimboldi

Berliner Philharmoniker - Puccini: Tosca

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker draw their inspiration from Tosca, the most brilliant of all t...

Il Trovatore (La Scala)

To stage Verdi's Il Trovatore, according to Arturo Toscanini, you need to bring together the four best singers...

Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Opéra National de Paris

Lucia di Lammermoor

Live from the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova 2003

Verdi: Il Trovatore

Alex Ollé, one of the famous La Fura dels Baus, recreates the conflict and places principal protagonists in cle...