Piero Cappuccilli

Macbeth

Piero Cappuccilli and Shirley Verrett lead Verdi’s sombre masterpiece, drawn from one of Shakespeare’s most cel...

Andrea Chenier

Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena than the one...

Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera

This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Doming...

Il Trovatore - Verdi

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curse on one of...

Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Marriage of Figaro

With the opera "Le nozze di Figaro" commenced the remarkably successful cooperation between Mozart and his libr...

Schöne Stimmen

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inheren...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

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

Andrea Chénier - La Scala

Live from La Scala Saturday 06 July 1985

Don Carlo

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

Andrea Chenier

France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenier supports su...

Otello

Verdi's 'Otello', based on Shakespeare's famous tragedy, is performed at the famous Arena of Verona, with Kiri...

Verdi: Nabucco

Verdi: Otello

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an af...

Il Trovatore

1966 film version of Verdi's opera.

In the Mouth of the Wolf

This documentary offers an incomparable glimpse into the Golden Age of opera, as the nervous stars—opera greats...