Brian Large

Valery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera and Ballet in this dramatic staging of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed historical opera, based on ...

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. ...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.

This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to ...

Recorded at Britain’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Leos Janacek’s opera follows the exploits of Emilia Marty (Anja Silja), a sexually ...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last ...

Puccini’s Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 season opener.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling opera by-line in seven tableaux. The epic journey of Sadko a sea-faring minstrel from Novgorod, his wife ...

European Concert 1994 From the Staatstheater Meiningen.

Serge Prokofiev’s enigmatic work, this is a tale of the supernatural, religious hysteria and demonic possession which is set in Germany at ...

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of religion, revenge and redemption gets the star treatment in this 1993 Metropolitan Opera production conducted by ...

The Maid of Orleans is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the ...

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met’s ...

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great ...

Performed in the actual Roman settings described in the libretto. Moreover, the scenes take place at the appropriate times of day. Rome, June ...

Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the California Gold Rush. At the center ...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s ...

Johann Strauss Jr.: Waltzes and Polkas. “The Thunder and Lightning” Polka, with its flashing cymbals and booming bass drum, has ...

A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert is an 89-minute television film starring the opera singers Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade, the jazz ...

John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti. As the simple, ...

Verdi’s opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.

In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, King Ninus. Her son, Ninius, disappears, ...

“Spirituals in Concert” featuring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.

Verdi – Un ballo in maschera / Domingo · Barstow · Quivar · Jo · Nucci · Rydl · Chaignaud · Wiener Phil. · Solti · Schlesinger · Salzburg ...

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène ...

A filmed concert of two famed sopranos.

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner.