Brian Large

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

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in this performance of Wagner’s opera recorded live in 2013. The performance was ...

Richard Strauss’ last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. ...

Flemings voice might have been made for Ariadne and she achieved a great personal triumph in this production: The chief glory of the evening was ...

Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss’ chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home ...

After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni is performed live at the Theater an der Wien in this 1999 production starring Carlos Alvarez in the ...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare, where ...

One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of Manon Lescaut, the headstrong young woman torn ...

Kiri Te Kanawa, Alexandru Agache, Michael Sylvesyer, and Roberto Scandiuzzi star in this Covent Garden production of the Verdi opera conducted by ...

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, starring ...

The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or ‘The Clemency of Titus’) marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final opera seria. With a libretto ...

This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro that was directed for the stage by Claus Guth at that ...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera’s La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins the ranks of the elite handful of ...

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

This 2004 production of Richard Strauss’s three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses ...

This production of Hans Werner Henze’s opera Upupa & Der Triumph der Sohnesliebe features Laura Aiken, John Mark Ainsley, and Alfred ...

The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (Russian: Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama, French: Pique Dame) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich ...

José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi’s blazingly passionate opera IL TROVATORE, ...

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner’s comic ...

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for ...

This modern interpretation of Georg Frederick Handel’s opera focuses on Rinaldo’s attempts to break free from enchantress Armida and ...

A production of Mozart’s opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà, ...

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an ...

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets recorded at Glyndebourne Opera House in 1999. The ...

Washington National Choir and Orchestra

Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila”, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera 28 September ...

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

Peter Konwitschny’s new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich ...

A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an ideal propellant for a virtuosic mezzo-soprano ...