Matti Salminen

Semperopernball

Fanatics

A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to not...

Boris Godunov

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet...

Wagner: Die Walküre

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprec...

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production...

Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three...

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of...

Der Freischütz

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz as a grippin...

Verdi - Don Carlo

Fidelio

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes...

Parsifal

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhof...

Tristan und Isolde

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Ri...

Wagner: Das Rheingold

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner...

Wagner: Parsifal

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and lo...

Götterdämmerung

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schne...

Don Carlo

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncour...

Wagner - Götterdämmerung

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortun...

The Met - Tristan und Isolde

James Levine’s love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It was an afternoo...

Die Zauberflöte

This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris in 2001, was di...

Siegfried

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), b...

Wagner: Die Walküre

It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who...

Parsifal's Progress

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus...

Wagner: Das Rheingold

In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Wal...

Die Zauberflöte

Aida

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s...

Das Rheingold

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appea...

Die Zauberflöte

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.

Tristan und Isolde

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The...

Rasputin

The opera of Einojuhani Rautavaara as presented by the Finnish National Opera in 2005

L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Züric...

The Flying Dutchman

lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a skipper who's b...

Der fliegende Holländer

Aida

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

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blendi...