Thomas Hampson

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, ...

Rufus Wainwright’s original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns in the Nile River. While matters of ...

Known for his mournful “Adagio for Strings,” Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration ...

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, operatic and lied master composer, ...

Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice ...

“Irresistible” (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini’s Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan ...

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s ...

Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He ...

One of the lesser known works by Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers as one of his finest. The action takes place ...

The classic musical by Bernstein, Comden and Green is performed live in concert in Berlin, starring Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, Brent Barrett ...

World-famous baritone Thomas Hampson hosts this tribute to Italy’s best known and most beloved composer, Giuseppe Verdi. Tracing the life ...

This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi’s haunting masterpiece brings the story of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy to ...

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. ...

Luc Bondy’s 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed ...

Conrad Susa’s three-act opera with libretto by Philip Littell, is based on the scandalous 18th century novel by Pierre Chodelos de Laclos, ...

A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993, conducted by ...

Delius’ opera as film.