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Richard Strauss
When the curtain fell at the Paris Opera premiere of Capriccio, the audiences rose to long [...]
Georges Bizet
The libretto, by Henri Meilac and Ludovic Halévy, is based on a novella by Prosper [...]
Georges Bizet
Arthaus presents a sensational filmed document from the musical legacy of Carlos Kleiber: [...]
Pietro Mascagni
Following the sensational success of his one-act opera Cavalleria rusticana at Rome’s [...]
Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero LeoncavalloCAVALLERIA RUSTICANA • PAGLIACCI
Two timeless stories of love, honour, justice and violence, captured on just one DVD – a [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aside from "Le nozze di Figaro" and "Don Giovanni", Lorezo Da Ponte [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The old philosopher Don Alfonso enrages his two friends, the officers Ferrando and [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jealous men and unreliable women: Mozart’s “Opera buffa” Così fan tutte is a [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The morale of Mozart’s dramma giocoso is clear: fidelity in women is like an Arabian [...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arthaus presents a true Salzburg success story on DVD. Così fan tutte is the third [...]
Peter von WinterDAS LABYRINTH - DER ZAUBERFLÖTE ZWEYTER THEIL
We are all familiar with Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) to the [...]
Richard Wagner
Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German [...]
Richard Wagner
The La Scala “Rheingold” in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers “Ring”-Cycle and [...]
Leoš Janáček
Walter Felsenstein (1901–1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in [...]
Benjamin Britten
Perhaps it was Luchino Visconti’s inspired cinematic version of Thomas Mann’s stories [...]
Gioachino Rossini
“What a pleasure to listen to Demetrio e Polibio”, wrote major Italian daily “La [...]
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz was first performed at the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin, on 18 June [...]
Carl Maria von Weber
The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der [...]
Carl Maria von Weber
In June and July 1967 the opera ensemble toured North America, with visits to the World [...]
