Hippolyte et Aricie

In Tamerlano, Handel defied rules both written and tacit—offering a main role to a mature tenor at a time when the castrato voice dominated;...

The opera Arsilda, regina di Ponto by Antonio Vivaldi, staged at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, by David Radok.

Nicholas McGegan conducts the Festspieleorchester Gottingen in this production of Handel's opera, recorded live at the Internationale...

Baldassarre Galuppi was considered the leading exponent of Venetian comic opera, if not the absolute creator. Though he was shortly forgotten after...

Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. The story of...

Before the opera begins, King Bertarido has been defeated in battle by Grimoaldo, who has usurped his throne. Bertarido has been able to escape and...

Handel’s Rinaldo was presented at the 2018 Festival della Valle d’Itria in its rare Neapolitan version of 1718, reconstructed from...

Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century....

Idoménée is a ‘tragédie lyrique’ composed by André Campra (1660–1744) on a libretto by Antoine Danchet....

The famous artist Youssef Fahmy discovers Laila's talent for singing. He encourages her to sing professionally against the wishes of her husband,...

Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple...