The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh by N. Rimsky-Korsakov from Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, performed at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2008. Directed by Eimuntas Nekrošius, conductor Alexander Vedernikov. Starring Mikhail Kazakov (Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich), Vitaly Panfilov (Hereditary Prince V...

The Love for Three Oranges by S. Prokofiev from De Nederlandse Opera, performed at The Stopera, Amsterdam, 2005. Directed by Laurent Pelly, conductor Stéphane Denève. Starring Alain Vernhes (Le Roi de Trèfle), Martial Defontaine (Le Prince), François Le Roux (Léandre), Serghei Khomov (Trouffaldin...

The Love for Three Oranges by S. Prokofiev, from Aix-en-Provence Festival, performed at Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2004. Directed by Philippe Calvario, conductor Tugan Sokhiev, starring Alexey Tanovitsky, Andrey Ilyushnikov, Nadezhda Serdjuk, Eduard Tsanga, Kirill Dushechkin, Vladislav Sulimsky, P...

"Mozart’s masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the fascinating world of opera.

Papageno is the presenter, who accompanies the audience through the pie...

The Miserly Knight & Aleko by Rachmaninoff, from Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival, 2019, Krasnoyarsk, 2019. Directed by Anais Spiro, conductor Vladimir Lande. Starring Sergei Leiferkus, baritone; Mikhail Pirogov, tenor; Mikhail Golovushkin, bass; Elena Guseva, soprano; Olga Basova, mezzo-soprano; Vse...

The Perfect American by Philip Glass, from Teatro Real, Madrid, 2013. Directed by János Darvas, conductor Dennis Russell Davies. Starring Christopher Purves, Walt Disney; David Pittsinger, Roy Disney; Donald Kaasch, Dantine; Janis Kelly, Hazel George; Marie McLaughlin, Lilian Disney; Sarah Tynan,...

In 1951, in Venice, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his only full-length opera The Rake’s Progress. He had conceived the idea for this work after visiting the Chicago Art Institute in 1947, where he came upon a series of eight satirical engravings of the same title, created by the Engli...

The Rake's Progress by I,Stravinsky, from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2010. Directed by John Cox, conductor Vladimir Jurowski, starring Matthew Rose, Miah Persson and Topi Lehtipuu. Performed in English and subtitled in English.

The Rape of Lucretia by B. Britten from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2015. Directed by Fiona Shaw, conductor Leo Hussain. Starring Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius)...

The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov from Staatsoper Berlin, performed at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2013. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conductor Daniel Barenboim. Starring Olga Peretyatko (Marfa), Anita Rachvelishvili (Lyubasha), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Grigory Gryaznoy), Pavel Černoch (Iva...

The Turn of the Screw by Britten from Aix-en-Provence Festival, performed at Jeu-de-Paume, 2001. Directed by Luc Bondy, conductor Daniel Harding. Starring Mireille Delunsch (Governess), Olivier Dumait (Prologue), Marlin Miller (Peter Quint), Nazan Fikret (Flora), Hanna Schaer (Mrs Grose), Gregory...

Torvaldo e Dorliska by G. Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, 2006. Directed by Mario Martone, conductor Victor Pablo Pérez, starring Francesco Meli, Michele Pertusi, Jeannette Fischer, Darina Takova, Bruno Praticò, Simone Alberghini Performed in Italian...

An Opera Film Première, that can be undoubtedly counted among the other classics of this genre, such as Ingmar Bergman’s Zauberflöte, Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea or Franco Zeffirelli’s Traviata, was released at the end of 2001: Benoît Jacquot’s Tosca. In 1964 a film o...

Tosca by G.Puccini, from Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, 2007. Directed by Mario Corradi, conductor Valerio Galli, starring Riccardo Ferrari, Stefano Secco, Giorgio Surian, Fernando Ciuffo, Antonia Cifrone, Franco Boscolo, Giovanni Caramanna, Massimo La Guardia and Veio Torcigliani. Performed i...

This production from the historic Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Italy, stars the opera world’s power couple, Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, as lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi. A tragic tale of doomed love interlaced with the age-old themes of jealousy, lust and intrigue, has ensured Tosca its p...

There are no bounds to the longing, the desire, the bliss, and the anguish of love. The world, power, fame, glory, honor, chivalry,loyalty, friendship...all are swept away. Only one thing is left alive...yearning, yearning, insatiable desire....“
Richard Wagner

Of all operas, perhaps the one ...

The enclosed DVD video release is an ARTHAUS MUSIK presentation of no more and no less than the perfect blend of two human senses: a music lover"s eye and ear will both experience the very finest quality production. Alone the star-studded vocal ensemble, under the direction of internationally ren...

Turandot by G. Puccini, from Arena di Verona, 2010. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, conductor Giuliano Carella, starring Salvatore Licitra, Tamar Iveri, Carlo Bosi, Leonardo Lopez Linares, Maria Grazia Garofoli, Giuliano Pelizon, Angel Harkatz Kaufman, Gianluca Bocchino and Luiz-octavio Faria. Per...

Turandot by Puccini from Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, performed at Teatro Carlo Felice, 2012. Directed by Giuliano Montaldo, conductor Donato Renzetti. Starring Daniela Dessì (Princess Turandot), Mario Malagnini (Calaf), Ramaz Chikviladze (Timur), Roberta Canzian (Liù), Massimo La Guardia (Empe...

Un ballo in maschera by G. Verdi, from Teatro Real, 2008. Directed by Mario Martone, conductor Jesús López Cobos, starring Marcelo Álvarez, Marco Vratogna, Elena Zaremba and Violeta Urmana. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian

Un mari à la porte by J. Offenbach from Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, performed at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019. Directed by Luigi Di Gangi; Ugo Giacomazzi, conductor Valerio Galli. Starring Patrizio La Placa (Henri Martel), Marina Ogii (Suzanne), Matteo Mezzaro (Florestan Ducroquet)...

Violanta by Korngold from Teatro Regio di Torino, performed at Teatro Regio di Torino, 2020. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conductor Pinchas Steinberg. Starring Annemarie Kremer (Violanta), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Simone Trova); Norman Reinhardt (Alfonso), Peter Sonn (Giovanni Bracca), Suola Para...

Die Zauberflöte by W. A. Mozart from Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, performed at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Baden-Baden Festival Hall, 2013. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Simon Rattle. Starring Pavol Breslik, Michael Nagy, Kate Royal, Ana Durlovski, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Regula Mühlemann, Jame...

"Jules Massenet´s opera Werther belongs to the most favourite works of French repertoire. It is in the first wave of German Romantic literature that Massenet found the source for his doubtless most powerful work – and certainly his most popular ! Might the French musician have detected in his own...