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La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maria Chiara

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marilyn Horne

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Margaret Price

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Claudio Abbado

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fiorenza Cedolins

Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mina Blum

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Vladimir Vaneev

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend....

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon O’Neill

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Rodney Gilfry

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernhard Kontarsky

Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Hübsch

Genre: Music

Cast: Hui He

This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus...

Genre: Music

Cast: Semyon Bychkov

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cecilia Bartoli

Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) and unfolds in an imaginary land inspired by the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon Butteriss

The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Gunnar Røise

Genre: Music

Cast: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

In the film One Night. One Life, based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christine Schäfer

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sylvain Cambreling