Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

Lohengrin

‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wagner himself understood the innovative character of

2018

Massenet: Manon

Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met. Man

2012

The Metropolitan Opera: Werther

Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet’s Goethe adaptation. Sophie Koch, in her M

2014

Déjà vu

Famous opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky performs live songs from his album 'Deja vu' by composer Igor Krutoy about life, love, music, fate and even de

2009

The Pirates of Penzance

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in their new West End pirate’s cove. The swashbuckling pi

2020

Gurrelieder

Performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons

2009

Dialogues des Carmelites

Based on a true story, the "Dialogues des Carmelites" sets the life of the Carmelites nuns at the dawn of the French Revolution. “Robert Carsen's pro

2004

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him

1987

Maria Callas: Toujours - Paris 1958

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to s

2015

Et avec la Lumière et la Mort sans cesse

1994

Trial by Jury

Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera concerning a 'breach of promise of marriage', staged for Granada Television. The Ambrosian Opera Chorus & English Chamb

1974

Lazebník sevillský

2023

Brokeback Mountain

A tragic and secretive romance ensues over many years after two men meet while herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in this opera based on Annie Proulx

2014

Zaryadye Hall: A Diamond is Hatched

Concert and documentary celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Moscow’s Zaryadye Hall

2019

The Metropolitan Opera: Semiramide

Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy suc

2018

Orango

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony

2014

A Night with Handel

Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with Han

1997

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Glyndebourne's celebrated production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Tristan und Isolde is a supremely intelligent achievement; gravely beautiful, haunting and

2008

For the First Time

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.

1959

Madama Butterfly

After Tosca (2019), which marked Puccini’s entry into its repertoire, the Festival celebrates the centenary of the composer’s death this year by putti

2024