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Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent...
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Teatro alla Scala
Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambreling conducts, with performances by...
Les Troyens
Dame Janet Baker, in one of her greatest roles, leads a cast of some of Britain’s finest interpeters of baroque opera and their performance...
Julius Caesar
Ariadne auf Naxos - Wiener Staatsoper
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion (RCO)
Aida
Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin.
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)
Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...
Die Soldaten
The Rhine maidens lure and mock the dwarf Alberich. He curses love and steals the Rhinegold.
Das Rheingold
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...
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso
The musical performance of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony is interactively connected with the visual interpretation of the piece. The arrangement of...
Vision Mahler
A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà,...
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she...
Norma
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...
Adriana Lecouvreur
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
Johannes Felsenstein’s production of HANSEL AND GRETEL presents it with every sinister element removed. The children remain in a home setting...
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Ritter Blaubart is a DEFA studio recording, commissioned by East German television, of Walter Felsenstein's production of Jacques Offenbach's...
Offenbach: Bluebeard (Komische Oper Berlin)
A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred...
Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
Paris Opera Ballet Master and choreographer Patrice Bart plunges into the Opera's past and brings Degas' famous statuette to life. From the rehearsal...
La Petite Danseuse de Degas
Live performance of Mozart's immortal Requiem in D minor from the Herkulessaal in Munich, 1984. Soprano Edith Mathis, alto Trudeliese Schmidt, tenor...
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV626