Filmed in June 2013 during three extraordinary performances that took place during the Aldeburgh Festival, "Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach" takes place in the heart of the town that inspired it and is the film interpretation of Britten’s Peter…

The collection “Classic Archive” presents great performances by legendary artists, remastered using the latest digital technology and enhanced with commentary for today’s audiences. These jewels of music broadcasting have been salvaged from various…

Pandolfe, a country gentleman, has married Madame de la Haltière, an imperious countess. She and her daughters Noémie and Dorothée bully Pandolfe’s daughter from his first marriage, Lucette (know as Cendrillon), Pandolfe loves Cendrillon but is too…

This work recounts the story of the capture and crucifixion of Christ, using the words of the Holy Scriptures, often interrupted by the poetic interjections of the chorus – dramatic, lyrical and contemplative. The emotional variety and intensity are…

On 25 June 2010, conductor John Nelson led the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Choir and the famous soloists Lisa Milne (soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Matthew Rose (baritone), Lucy Crowe (soprano) and Jonathan Beyer…

For its first new production of the opera in 10 years, Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown. Mozart’s second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very…

Under the baton of Michel Plasson, a Massenet specialist, Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch perform one of opera's most touching love stories. In Massenet's masterpiece, tears never cease to flow from the very moment the moonlight idyll is revealed and…

In this elegiac universe, the arias sung by Amina, the kind-hearted young sleep-walker, are pure miracles of lunar poetry. For the first time at the Paris Opera Natalie Dessay sings one of the most beautiful roles of Italian romanticism. What a sense…

“The Cunning Little Vixen” is Janáček’s lightest opera, and, despite the titular vixen’s death at the end of the work. The composer moved away from the more conversational style of previous and subsequent operas in favor of a more folk-like-style…

The „Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" plot couldn’t be simpler: Time and Disillusion try to convince Beauty to abandon Pleasure for less fleeting gratifications. Krzysztof Warlikowski has taken Handel’s first oratorio, written when he was just…