Il turco in Italia by G.Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, 2007. Directed by Guido de Monticelli, conductor Antonello Allemandi, starring Bruno Taddia, Alessandra Marianelli, Andrea Concetti, Marco Vinco, Elena Belfiore, Daniele Zanfardino and Filippo Adami. Performed in Italian and subtit...

Il Viaggio a Reims by G. Rossini, from Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, performed at Théâtre du Châtelet, 2005. Directed by Alain Maratrat, conductor Valery Gergiev, starring Anastasia Belyaeva, Vladislav Ouspenski, Larissa Youdina, Daniil Shtoda, Anna Kiknadze, Alexeï Safiouline. Performed in Italian...

Six Intermediums from La Pellegrina by Various Composers, from Fondazione Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, performed at Giardino di Boboli Palazzo Pitti Firenze, 2019. Directed by Valentino Villa, conductor Federico Maria Sardelli, starring Mauro Borgioni, Rossana Bertini, Elena Bertuzzi, Candida Guid...

Iolanta by Piotr Tchaikovsky, from Teatro Real, Madrid, 2012. Directed by Peter Sellars, conductor Teodor Currentzis. Starring Ekaterina Scherbachenko, Iolanta; Dmitry Ulianov, King René; Alexey Markov, Robert; Pavel Cernoch, Vaudémont; Willard White, Ibn-Hakia; Vasily Efimov, Alméric; Pavel Kudi...

I Pagliacci; Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana by Leoncavallo from Dutch National Opera, performed at Dutch National Opera, 2019. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Lorenzo Viotti. Starring Roman Burdenko (Prologue; Silvio; Tonio - I Pagliacci); Ailyn Pérez (Nedda - I Pagliacci); Brandon Jovanovic...

I Puritani by V. Bellini from Teatro Real, performed at Teatro Real, 2016. Directed by Emilio Sagi, conductor Evelino Pidò. Starring Diana Damrau (Elvira), Javier Camarena (Arturo), Ludovic Tezier (Riccardo), Nicolas Teste (Sir Giorgio), Annalisa Stroppa (Fernando Radó), Orchestra and Chorus of T...

I Puritani by V.Bellini, from Stuttgart State Opera, performed at Staatstheater Stuttgart, 2018. Directed by Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, conductor Manlio Benzi, starring Diana Haller, Roland Bracht, René Barbera, Adam Palka, Ana Durlovski, Gezim Myshketa, Heinz Göhrig. Performed in Italian and...

I Shardana by E. Porrino from Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, performed at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2013. Directed by Davide Livermore, conductor Anthony Bramall. Starring Manrico Signorini (Gonnario), Angelo Villari (Torbeno), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Orzocco), Domenico Balzani (Norace), Paoletta Marrocu...

Kátia Kabanová by L. Janáček, from Salzburg Festival, performed at Kleines Festpielhaus, 1998. Directed by Christoph Marthaler, conductor Sylvain Cambreling, starring Angela Denoke, Rainer Trost, Henk Smit, Hubert Delamboye, Dagmar Peckova, David Kuebler, Jane Henschel, Ulrich Voss, Frédéric Cato...

Kátia Kabanová by Janácek from Les Bouffes du Nord, performed at Théâtre de l'Archipel, 2014. Directed by André Engel, starring Kelly Hodson (Kátia), Paul Gaugler (Boris), Céline Laly (Varvara), Elena Gabouri (Kabanicha), Jérôme Billy (Koudriac), Michel Hermon (Dikoj), Mathilde Cardon (Glasa et...

Katia Kabanova by Leoš Janácek, from Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 2015. Directed by André Engel, conductor . Starring Kelly Hodson, Kátia; Paul Gaugler, Boris; Céline Laly, Varvara; Elena Gabouri, Kabanicha; Jérôme Billy, Koudriac; José Canales, Tichon; Michel Hermon, Dikoj; Mathilde Card...

Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky from Gran Teatre del Liceu, performed at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2007. Directed by Stein Winge, conductor Michael Boder. Starring Vladimir Ognovenko (Ivan Khovansky), Vladimir Galouzine (Andrei Khovansky), Robert Brubaker (Vasily Golitsyn), Nikolai Putilin (S...

King Arthur by H. Purcell, from Staatsoper Unter den Linden, performed at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, 2017. Directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf Julian Crouch, conductor René Jacobs, starring Meike Droste, Tom Radisch, Michael Rotschopf, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Oliver Stokowski, Max Urlacher,...

A superficial view may regard Offenbach’s lightweight masterpiece, La belle Hélène, as „merely“ an opera buffa. But closer scrutiny of this charming, imaginative firework of intrigue makes one thing clear: the story of the Greek queen who started off the Trojan war is, in this version, a humorous...

Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni's incomparable partnership as Rodolfo and Mimi, the tragic lovers in Puccini's much-loved bittersweet opera, is captured for posterity in this live recording from the San Francisco Opera. Francesca Zambello's production boasts a superlative cast with Gino Quili...

La Bohème by Puccini from Teatro Real, performed at Teatro Real, Madrid, 2006. Directed by Giancarlo del Monaco, conductor Jesús López Cobos. Starring Inva Mula (Mimi) and Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo). Performance Language Italian and Subtitled in German, English, Spanish, and Italian.

La bohème by G. Puccini from Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, performed at Teatro dei Quattromila, Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Maurizio Scaparro, conductor Stewart Robertson. Starring Norma Fantini (Mimì), Massimiliano Pisapia (Rodolfo), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Donata D'Annunzio Lombard...

La Bohème by G.Puccini, from Malmö Opera, 2014. Directed by Orpha Phelan, conductor Christian Badea, starring Olesya Golovneva, Joachim Bäckström, Vladislav Sulimsky, Maria Fontosh, Miklós Sebestyén, Magnus Loftsson, Bengt Krantz, Xhelal Bakraqi. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English and ...

La Cambiale di matrimonio by G.Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, 2006. Directed by Luigi Squarzina, conductor Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, starring Saimir Pirgu, Paolo Bordogna, Désirée Rancatore, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, Enrico Maria Marabelli, Mar...

"La Cenerentola is one of those Rossini operas that cannot be forced into a stylistic straightjacket. An opera buffa with tragic overtones, a comedy with magical nuances, a parable in which one character – Alidoro – pulls all the strings. The fairy tale transcends character comedy to become a bar...

La Cenerentola by G. Rossini from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2005. Directed by Sir Peter Hall, conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Starring Raquela Sheeran (Clorinda), Lucia Cirillo (Tisbe), Ruxandra Donose (Angelina), Nathan Berg (Alidoro), Lu...

La cenerentola by G.Rossini, from Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, 2010. Directed by Daniele Abbado, conductor Evelino Pido, starring Maxim Mironov, Paolo Bordogna, Alessandra Volpe, Roberto De Candia, Nicola Ulivieri, José Maria Lo Monaco and Eleonora Cilli. Performed in Italian and subtitled in Englis...

"Premiered not very successfully, in Prague on September 6th 1791, La Clemenza di Tito had turned into a considerable triumph within a month and was the first Mozart opera to be heard in London in 1806. The opera celebrates one man’s wisdom and regal benevolence and his struggle to maintain cleme...

La clemenza di Tito by Mozart from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2017. Directed by Claus Guth, conductor Robin Ticciati. Starring Alice Coote (Vitellia), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Michèle Losier (Annio), Clive Bayley (Publio), Richard Croft (T...