Opera Live Performance Movies

First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of La Scala on December 7th. Following the...

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him in danger as the women he's betrayed...

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe...

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions...

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make...

Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Live performance from Taormina Opera Festival, July 15, 2015.

Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo. The Count...

Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and...

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi...

“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious...

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Stage direction by Piero Faggioni.

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...