Don Carlo

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audien...

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy...

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .

Live performance from the Vienna State Opera, 6 May 2010.

This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco Zeffirelli, best k...

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.

David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired by film noir. Marcelo Álvarez is Gustavo III, the S...

LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince...

Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips an...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.