Enrico di Borgogna by G.Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, 2018. Directed by Silvia Paoli, conductor Alessandro De Marchi, starring Anna Bonitatibus, Sonia Ganassi, Levy Sekgapane, Francesco Castoro, Luca Tittoto, Lorenzo Barbieri, Federica Vitali, M...

Ercole amante by F. Cavalli from De Nederlandse Opera, performed at The Stopera, Amsterdam, 2009. Directed by David Alden, conductor Ivor Bolton. Starring Luca Pisaroni (Ercole), Veronica Cangemi (Iole), Jeremy Ovenden (Illo), Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira), Concerto Köln, Ivor Bolton.

Ercole Amante by Cavalli from Opéra Comique, performed at Opéra Comique, 2019. Directed by Valérie Lesort; Christian Hecq, conductor Raphaël Pichon. Starring Nahuel di Pierro (Ercole); Anna Bonitatibus (Giunone); Giuseppina Bridelli (Dejanira); Francesca Aspromonte (Jole); Krystian Adam (Krystian...

Ercole su'l Termodonte by A.Vivaldi, from Spoleto Festival, performed at Teatro Caio Melisso, 2006. Directed by John Pascoe, conductor Alan Curtis, starring Filippo Mineccia, Diana, Maria Bartoli, Randall Scotting, Zachary Stains, Laura Cherici, Mary-Elen Nesi and Luca Dordolo. Performed in Italian

Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani is a vibrant adaptation for the lyric stage of one of the most flamboyant dramas by the French poet. Both the composer and his librettist have combined Hugo’s verbal eloquence with the right musical temperament. Perfect example of Grand opera with chorus, the magnificent A...

Eugene Onegin by P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Bolshoi Theatre, 2008. Directed by Dimitri Tcherniakov, conductor Alexander Vedernikov, starring Mariusz Kwiecien, Anatoly Kocherga, Makvala Kasrashvili, Tatiana Monogarova, Emma Sarkisyan, Margarita Mamsirova, Andrey Dunaev and Valery Gilmanov. Performed ...

Eugene Onegin by P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Verbier Festival, performed at Salle des Combins, 2017. Directed by Timothy Carroll, conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky, starring Paweł Konik, Gihoon Kim, Aleksandra Rybakova, Alexander Mikhaylov, Anna Harvey, Anastasiia Sidorova, Adèle Charvet, Jasper Leever...

Euryanthe by C.M. V. Weber, from Theater an der Wien, 2018. Directed by Christof Loy, Conductor Constantin Trinks, starring Theresa Kronthaler, Norman Reinhardt, Jacquelyn Wagner, Stefan Cerny, Andrew Foster-Williams and Eva Maria Neubauer. Performed in German and subtitled in English, German, Fr...

Falstaff by G. Verdi from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2009. Directed by Richard Jones, conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Starring Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Tassis Christoyannis (Ford), Dina Kuznetsova (Mrs. Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mi...

"The stout Sir John Falstaff has financial problems. To refill his empty pockets he strives for amorous affairs with Alice and Meg, the wives of the rich citizens Ford and Page. The two ladies might even have consented, had they not received identical love letters. So they decide to play a trick ...

Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, from Staatsoper Hamburg, 2020. Directed by Henning Kasten, conductor Axel Kober. Starring Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Ambrogio Maestri, Falstaff; Markus Brück, Ford; Oleksiy Palchykov, Fenton; Jürgen Sacher, Dr. Cajus; Daniel Kluge, Bardolfo; Tigran Martirossian...

Fedora by U.Giordano, from Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, 2015. Directed by Rosetta Cucchi, conductor Valerio Galli, starring Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Daria Kovalenko, Margherita Rotondi, Manuel Pierattelli, Alessandro Fantoni, Luigi Roni, Claudio Ottino, Roberto Maiett...

Fernand Cortez by G. Spontini, from Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019 / 2020. Directed by Cecilia Ligorio, conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud, starring Luca Lombardo, Gianluca Margheri, Alexia Voulgaridou, Dario Schmunck, David Ferri Durà, André Courville, Lisandro Guinis and Leonardo Melani. P...

The Deutsche Oper in Berlin had hardly opened on 24th September 1961 before it started preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary. How was that possible? Had it entered into some sort of time warp? That might indeed have been possible for a theatre that in the past had devoted itself to Richard ...

If not at the beginning of the opera, then surely with the well-known prisoner chorus “O welche Wonne!” everybody will recognise the outstanding quality of this Fidelio. Leonore’s “Töt erst sein Weib!”, sung by the soprano Anja Silja, is only one out of many deep emotional moments of this studio ...

Fidelio by Beethoven, from Zurich Opera, 2004. Directed by Jürgen Flimm, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, starring Jonas Kaufmann, Alfred Muff, László Polgár, Christoph Strehl, Gabriel Bermúdez, Camillia Nylund, Elizabeth Rae Maguson and Boguslaw Bidzinski. Performed in German and subtitled in Fre...

Fidelio by L.v. Beethoven from Opernhaus Zürich, performed at Opernhaus Zurich, 2008. Directed by Katharina Thalbach, conductor Bernard Haitink. Starring Melanie Diener (Leonore), Roberto Saccà (Florestan), Sandra Trattnigg (Marzelline), Alfred Muff (Rocco), Lucio Gallo (Don Pizarro), Zurich Oper...

Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven, from Theater St. Gallen, 2018. Directed by Ralph Netzer, conductor Otto Tausk, Michael Vogel (Choir). Starring Jacquelyn Wagner , Norbert Ernst , Pizarro Roman Trekel, Wojtek Gierlach , Tatjana Schneider , Riccardo Botta , Martin Summer, Marc Haag, Frank Uhlig,...

Fortunio by A.Messager, from Opéra Comique, 2019. Directed by Denys Podalydès, conductor Louis Langrée, starring Joseph Kaiser, Virginie Pochon, Jean-Marie Frémeau, Jean-Sébastien Bou,Jean-François Lapointe, Pierre Derhet, Thomas Dear, Aliénor Feix, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Geoffroy Buffière, Sarah Jo...

Francesca da Rimini by S. Mercadante from Festival della Valle d'Itria, performed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, 2016. Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, conductor Fabio Luisi. Starring Leonor Bonilla (Francesca), Aya Wakizono (Paolo), Merto Süngü (Lanciotto), Antonio di Matteo (Guido), Larisa Mar...

Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehár, from Semperoper, Dresden, 2007. Directed by Don Kent, conductor Manfred Honeck. Starring Gunther Emmerlich, Lydia Teuscher, Bo Skovhus, Petra-Maria Schnitzer.

Frühlingsstürme (Spring Storms) by J. Weinberger, from Komische Oper Berlin, 2020. Conductor Jordan de Souza, starring Stefan Kurt, Dominik Köninger, Tansel Akzeybek, Vera-lotte Boecker, Tino Lindenberg and Alma Sadé. Performed in German and subtitled in English, German, French, Japanese and Korean.

"SCHUMANN’S GENOVEVA – A MODERN-DAY DRAMA OF THE SOUL"

On 25th June 1850, Robert Schumann’s only opera, Genoveva, received its first performance at Leipzig State Theatre. It was a much-awaited event, as Schumann, widely regarded as the leading German instrumental composer, had set his mind to ...

Alcina by George Frideric Handel, from Live recording from the Wiener Staatsoper 2010, 2011. Directed by Matthias Leutzendorff, conductor Marc Minkowski. Starring Wiener Staatsopernchor; Anja Harteros, Alcina; Veronica Cangemi, Morgana; Vesselina Kasarova, Ruggiero; Kristina Hammarström, Bradaman...