Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma)

Die Walküre

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behren

1990

Siegfried

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

1990

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimacy of this powerful tale of love and politics. Liud

2012

Verdi: Otello

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy

2015

Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 2015

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.

2015

Carmen (Opéra de Lyon)

Live performance from the Opéra de Lyon, July 1 2012. Controversial production by Olivier Py.

2012

Massenet: Thaïs

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to

2008

Simon Boccanegra

Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

1984

La forza del destino

Live performance from the Teatro Comunale di Modena

2007

La vie parisienne

Live performance from Opéra National de Lyon.

2007

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

2002

Adriana Lecouvreur

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-

2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips an

2014

Così fan tutte

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.

1996

Die Fledermaus

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

1986

Don Pasquale

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met a

1979

Verdi: Falstaff

Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert Carsen’s hit staging of Verdi’s great human comedy.

2013

Carmen

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

1997

Carmen

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Do

2006

Carmen

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .

2009