Wozzeck by Alban Berg performed with the Frankfurter Museumorchester.

This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto...

Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997...

The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved...

In 2002, Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice, based on the novel by William Styron, was given its premiere at the Royal Opera House. The subject had...

Hans Werner Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa” is directly inspired by Théodore Géricault’s famous painting. The...

One of the greatest revolutions in the history of mankind happened around 3000 years ago: the transition from polytheism to monotheism through the...