Robert Lloyd

The Magic Flute

Tamino, a handsome prince, and Papageno, a bird-catcher, are sent by the Queen of Night to rescue her daughter...

Parsifal

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, Germ...

Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa...

Verdi Nabucco

NABUCCO may be Verdi's first masterpiece, and not just because of that amazing Chorus of Hebrews which is justl...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past...

Opening Night Gala Starring Renée Fleming

Keeping with a long-standing tradition, Renee Fleming kicks off the new season at the Met with scenes from Verd...

Verdi: Don Carlo

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

Shahram & Abbas

Two Iranian men, young student Shahram and older journalist Abbas meet at Schiphol airport. In order to make a...

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

The world’s most famous love story comes to operatic life with superstars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna play...

Lucia di Lammermoor

Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technic...

Boris Godunov

This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990. Modest Musso...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

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

Lohengrin

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner.

Verdi: Don Carlo

In this majestic production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, Riccardo Chailly’s qualities as a Verdi conductor are brillia...

Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino

Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by Christof Loy...

Don Carlo

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink...

Wagner : Parsifal

A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the...

Wagner Lohengrin

Drama Romance Musical

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1988. What sets this IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA apart from all othe...

The Mikado

ENO revival of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as reimagined in a 1930s grand hotel setting with Marx...

Beethoven: Fidelio

Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the loc...

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him...

Aida

Cheryl Studer, in the title role, leads an excellent cast in Elijah Moshinsky's 1994 production of Verdi's extr...

Handel: Messiah the 250th Anniversary Performance

Sir Neville Marriner conducts this 250th Anniversary performance. Soloists include Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie Va...

Don Carlo - ROH

Rolando Villazón Triumphantly Returns To The Stage As Don Carlo In The 2007/2008 Royal Opera House'S Producton...

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at the height of the...

Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea

This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenell...

Gounod: Romeo et Juliette

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired since its first...

Le Nozze di Figaro

Der fliegende Holländer

A Romantic Opera in three acts recorded live at The Amsterdam Music Theatre.

Les Troyens

After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty. He meets D...

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich, with...

Les Troyens

Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambre...

Fidelio

Beethoven's opera Fidelio.