1988

Carmen

8.2/5

This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gr...

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Carmen

Elektra

0/0

In the spring of 2024, the Berliner Philharmoniker, under the direction of their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, presented a staged production of Ric...

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Elektra

2017

Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star

8/1

Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy h...

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Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star

1984

Amadeus

8.023/4734

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburg...

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Amadeus

1990

Die Walküre

8.125/8

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behren...

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Die Walküre

2016

Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala

8/1

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Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala

2019

Swan Lake

0/0

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet in three acts, is present by the Ballet Company of the National Opera of Ukraine, with music provided by the Orchest...

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Swan Lake

1925

The Phantom of the Opera

7.11/395

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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The Phantom of the Opera

2014

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

0/0

Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic Rusalka. The story of the opera, which is about a...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

2008

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

10/1

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic t...

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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

2015

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

5/1

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess o...

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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

2016

Opera Gala - Live from Baden Baden

7/1

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Opera Gala - Live from Baden Baden

1963

Rusalka

7.5/2

The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. Her sincere feelings are met with human treachery...

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Rusalka

2003

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

8.5/2

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pi...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

1940

Operette

7.2/5

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a...

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Operette

1983

Lucia di Lammermoor

10/1

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She drove...

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Lucia di Lammermoor

2013

Così fan tutte

6.8/10

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which t...

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Così fan tutte

1993

The Marriage of Figaro

10/3

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the Pappano are better still due to the female members...

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The Marriage of Figaro

1980

Strauss: Elektra

0/0

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hof...

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Strauss: Elektra

2018

Gloriana

0/0

Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex:...

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Gloriana