Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin under the direction of the legendary maestro Daniel Barenboim.
0 2008 HD
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...
7 1981 HD
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
10 2018 HD
6 1989 HD
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
0 1997 HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.
0 1981 HD
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethiopian princess Aida, and his loyalty to the...
8 2012 HD
The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimacy of this powerful tale of love and...
0 1987 HD
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid)...
8 1990 HD
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle....
7.5 1990 HD
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.
0 2016 HD
Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.
0 2016 HD
Live performance for Garsington Opera, June-July, 2016.
0 1996 HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.
0 1986 HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.
0 1979 HD
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...
8 2013 HD
Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert Carsen’s hit staging of Verdi’s great...
0 2013 HD
David McVicar’s inventive hit production of Handel’s most popular opera sets the story of Caesar’s conquest of Egypt—and of...
0 2015 HD
LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.
0 2009 HD
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...
8 2014 HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective...
