Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...

An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...

This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...

Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...

In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores o...

With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker s...

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent...

Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, a...

Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime port...

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The...

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de...

When Jephthah, a biblical parable adapted from the Book of Judges, begins, the people of Israel are...

The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that w...

There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgar...

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan...

Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they tr...

Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned...