Maria Agresta

7.7 TVThe World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years...

BBC Proms

1947

7.0 MovieOn a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recently acclaimed by The Daily Telegraph as the world...

Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House

2017

6.5 MovieAs comparably short operas, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are often billed together, but seldom is the lead tenor making his double role debut as Turiddu and...

Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

2015

8.0 MovieThe Salzburg Festival presents one of Charles Gounod's most well-loved opera: Faust, in a new production staged by Reinhard von der Thannen, conducted by Alejo Pérez...

Faust - Salzburg Festival

2016

7.0 MovieVisually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downright exciting! and I found the singing, acting, and orchestral...

Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala

2015

MovieTo stage Verdi's Il Trovatore, according to Arturo Toscanini, you need to bring together the four best singers in the world. This stunning production at Milan's La...

Il Trovatore (La Scala)

2014

MovieSimon Stone's take on Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, opening the 2023/2024 season at the Opera di Roma.

Mefistofele

2023

MovieCio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their...

The Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly

2022

MovieIn Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his duty to a corrupt city. Jacopo Foscari, son of a...

Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari

2015

MovieThe ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018

MovieAs Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has already given it to a passionate troubadour whose mother holds a...

Il trovatore - Teatro Real

2019

MovieAs Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has already given it to a passionate troubadour whose mother holds a...

Il Trovatore - NCPA

2019

MovieThe first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one...

Carmen - Opéra National de Paris

2017

MovieSacred composition (1984) dedicated to Alessandro Manzoni - with Maria Agresta, Daniela Barcellona, Piotr Beczala, Ildar Abdrazakov - Verbier Festival Orchestra,...

Verdi - Messa da Requiem

MovieDonizetti's 'Gemma di Vergy' recorded live at the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo in September 2011.

Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy

2013