Otello by G.Verdi, from Sferisterio Opera Festival, performed at Arena Sferisterio, 2016. Directed by Paco Azorin, conductor Riccardo Frizza, starring Stuart Neill, Jessica Nuccio, Roberto Frontali, Davide Giusti. Performed in Italian.

"Pietro Mascagni‘s “Cavalleria rusticana” speak to one‘s heart and soul.
This opera is supported by a musical variety of great arias, short duets and amazing choir passages that add to the unveiled expression of feelings. Soprano Paoletta Marrocu with her expressive interpretation of Santuzza ca...

I Pagliacci by R.Leoncavallo, from Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019/ 2020. Directed by Ugo Giacomazzi and Luigi di Gangi, conductor Valerio Galli, starring Devid Cecconi, Angelo Villari, Valeria Sepe, Matteo Mezzaro, Leon Kim. Performed in Italian.

Parsifal by R. Wagner, from Venezia Teatro La Fenice, performed at La Fenice, 2005. Directed by Denis Krief, conductor Gabor Ötvos, starring Doris Soffel, Richard Decker, Wolfgang Schöne, Matthias Hölle, Ulrich Dünnebach. Performed in German and Subtitled in English, German, Spanish, French and I...

Parsifal by R. Wagner from Staatsoper Unter den Linden, performed at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, 2015. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conductor Daniel Barenboim. Starring Andreas Schager (Parsifal), Anja Kampe (Kundry), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Wolfgang Koch (Amfortas), Tómas Tómasson (Klingsor), ...

Pelléas et Mélisande by C. Debussy, from Oper Zürich, performed at Zurich Opera House, 2016. Directed by Dimitry Tcherniakov, conductor Alain Altinoglu, starring Jacques Imbrailo, Corinne Winters, Kyle Ketelsen, Brindley Sherratt, Yvonne Naef, Damien Göritz, Charles Dekeyser, Father of Pelléas. P...

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Persée by Jean-Baptiste Lully, from Opera Atelier, Toronto, 2004. Directed by Marc Stone, conductor Hervé Niquet. Starring Cyril Auvity (Persée), Alain Coulombe (Phinee), Olivier Laquerre (Cephée, Méduse), Marie Lenormand (Andromède), Stephanie Novacek (Cassiope) Tafelmusik B...

Perséphone by Igor Stravinsky, from Teatro Real, Madrid, 2012. Directed by Peter Sellars, conductor Teodor Currentzis. Starring Dominique Blanc, Perséphone; Paul Groves, Eumolpus.

Filmed in June 2013 during three extraordinary performances that took place during the Aldeburgh Festival, “Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach” takes place in the heart of the town that inspired it and is the film interpretation of Britten’s “Peter Grimes”, the most successful opera of post-war Brit...

Pia de' Tolomei by G. Donizetti, from Venezia Teatro La Fenice, performed at La Fenice, 2005. Directed by Christian Gangneron, conductor Paolo Arrivabeni, starring Francesco Meli, Patrizia Ciofi, Andrew Schroeder, Daniel Borowski, Laura Polverelli, Clara Polito, Dario Schmunck, Carlo Cigni, Luca ...

Pietro Il Grande by Donizetti from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2021. Directed by Ondadurto Teatro, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini. Starring Roberto De Candia (Pietro il Grande), Loriana Castellano (Caterina), Paola Gardina (Madama Fritz), Nina Solodovnikova...

On the surface it is a comic version of the “Hauptmann von Köpenick” story in which it is not the petty thief Wilhelm Voigt who carries off the prank but a respected member of society, the clerk Wilhelm Fadenkreutz. He is not a factory owner like Diederich Heßling, but definitely has many of the ...

"Walter Felsenstein (1901–1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, was one of the twentieth century’s greatest creative theatre directors, who played a hugely important role in the revival of opera as a theatrical art form. A brilliant artist who directed over 190 produ...

Rigoletto tells the story of the crippled court jester Rigoletto and his adored daughter Gilda, whom he desperately tries to protect from the advances of the pleasure-loving Duke of Mantua. While Gilda naïvely gives credence to the Duke’s amorous advances, he is concerned only with constantly cha...

Rinaldo by G.F. Händel from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2011. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Ottavio Dantone. Starring Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida), Luca Pisaroni (Argante), Varduhi Abrahamyan...

At its time Rinaldo created a sensation; it premiered on 24 February 1711 and was staged more than any other Handel opera during his lifetime. The renowned German baroque ensemble lautten compagney Berlin under the musical direction of Wolfgang Katschner, whose great passion applies to music thea...

Rinaldo by G. F. Handel/L. Leo, from Festival della Valle d'Itria, performed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, 2019. Directed by Giorgio Sangati, conductor Fabio Luisi, starring Carmela Remigio, Francesca Ascioti, Valentina Cardinali,Dara Savinova, Teresa Iervolino, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Lo...

Roberto Devereux by G. Donizetti from Donizetti Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2006. Directed by Francesco Bellotto, conductor Marcello Rota. Starring Dimitra Theodossiou (Elizabeth, Queen of England), Andrew Schroeder (The Duke of Nottingham), Federica Bragaglia (Sara, D...

Roberto Devereux by G.Donizetti, from Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, performed at Teatro Carlo Felice, 2016. Directed by Alfonso Antoniozzi, conductor Francesco Lanzillotta, starring Stefan Pop,Mariella Devia,Sonia Ganassi,Mansoo Kim,Alessandro Fantoni,Matteo Armanino,Loris Purpura. Performed in ...

Romeo et Juliette by C. Gounod, from Arena di Verona, 2011. Directed by Francesco Micheli, conductor Fabio Mastrangelo, starring Nino Machaidze, Artur Rucinski, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Stefano Secco, Cristina Melis, Deyan Vatchkov, Jean-françois Borras, Giorgio Giuseppini, Manrico Signorini, Paolo A...

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra by G.Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro Donizetti, 2016. Directed by Paola Rota, conductor Sebastiano Rolli, starring Jessica Pratt, Eva Mei, Dario Schmunck, Nicola Ulivieri, Raffaella Lupinacci. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, Ge...

"David Pountney’s landmark English National Opera staging of Dvořák’s haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl, on the brink of sensual awakening, dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the w...

Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák, from La Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels, 2012. Directed by Willy Vanduren, conductor Stefan Herheim. Starring Myrtò Papatanasiu, Rusalka; Pavel Černoch, Prince; Annalena Persson, Foreign princess; Willard White, Vodnik; Renée Morloc, Ježibaba; Ekaterina Isachenko, YoungHee Ki...

Ruslan and Lyudmilla by M. Glinka, from Bolshoi Theatre, 2011. Directed by Dimitri Tcherniakov, conductor Vladimir Jurowski, starring Charles Workman, Albina Shagimuratova, Mikhail Petrenko, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Elena Zaremba, Vladimir Ognovenko, Almas Svilpa, Alexander Polkovnikov and Yur...