Michael Spyres

6.1 TVThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical...

Great Performances

1971

6.0 MovieThe electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and...

The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde

2026

10.0 MoviePremiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial...

Mozart: Don Giovanni

2021

MovieBeethoven's only opera came to the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris in 2021 in a sensational production. The work of conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Cyril...

Fidelio

2021

MovieComposed in 1707 in Rome, Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is an oratorio in two parts with a libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Staged by...

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

2016

MovieAureliano in Palmira celebrated its rst première on 26 December 1813 at the Scala in Milan. Soon afterwards the work was played in different theatres all over Europe....

Aureliano in Palmira

2015

MovieThis Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as good as the Met's videos any day. It also tends to be creepy and...

The Bleeding Nun

2019

MovieThe Biblical story of Belshazzar's hubristic arrogance, set against the valour of the young warrrior-leader Cyrus, provided the 20-year-old Rossini with a dramatic...

Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia - Rossini Opera Festival

2012

MovieThis release from Erato consists of highlights from the live concert of April 15, 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast of singers,...

Berlioz: Les Troyens

2017

MovieAdolphe Adam’s Le Postillon de Lonjumeau was a great success at its premiere in 1836, and, along with the ballet Giselle, has remained one of the composer’s most...

Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

2020

MoviePriestess Julia watches over the eternal flame of the goddess Vesta. While the Great Vestal condemns to death every virgin who breaks her vow of chastity, Julia is...

La Vestale - Opéra national de Paris

MovieRossini’s La donna del lago, premièred in 1819 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, is a masterpiece based on the poem The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, which...

La donna del Lago

2023

MovieThe Bayreuth Festival's annual new production is one of the most eagerly awaited events of the operatic calendar, and in 2025 Matthias Davids brings his experience as...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Bayreuth Festival 2025

2025

MovieThe Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its new conductor Petr Popelka, celebrates Johann Strauss II in the splendid setting of the Teatro Rossetti in Trieste.

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Trieste Rossetti Theatre

2025

MovieAfter marrying the emperor of the south-eastern islands, the daughter of the king of the spirits lost her magical powers without acquiring the shadow that would seal...

Richard Strauss: The Woman without a Shadow @ Aix-en-Provence Festival 2026

2026

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Rossini - Guillaume Tell

2015

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Roberto Alagna chante à Versailles

2016