Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this filmed studio performance of Mozart’s opera recorded in 1988.

Soprano Yvonne Kenny turns in a spirited performance as Aspasia in this brilliant staging of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s first ...

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

The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the ‘grand style’. Plus the fact that the two lead characters are portrayed ...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a ‘Tristan’ for eternity. The 1983 performance in ...

Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he’s rather unattractive, but he’s good at his job ...

Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo — the ...

Placido Domingo celebrates the city that has inspired the greatest number of opera composers as a setting.

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

“La Clemenza di Tito” was Mozart’s last stage work. It was commissioned for an Imperial coronation ceremony while Mozart was at ...