Un Ballo in Maschera(1991)

A Midsummer Night's Dream(en)

The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

Acis a Galatea(en)

La forza del destino(it)

Live performance from the Teatro Comunale di Modena

La vie parisienne(fr)

Live performance from Opéra National de Lyon.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann(fr)

Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk(ru)

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Lulu(de)

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.

Maometto secondo(it)

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s during a time of war between the Turks and Venetians, the work was commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo. The name of the title character, Maometto II, refers to the real-life Ottoman Sultan and conqueror of Constantinople Mehmed II, who lived from 1432 to 1481.

Simon Boccanegra(it)

Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

Benvenuto Cellini(fr)

Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for Teresa, daughter of the Papal Treasurer Balducci. His rival, the Papal Sculptor Fieramosca, overhears Cellini plotting to run away with Teresa during the carnival.

Tosca(it)

Live from the Zurich Opera House, 2009.

Così fan tutte(it)

Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann(fr)

Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann(fr)

Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for Neil Shicoff’s vivid portrayal of the tortured poet Hoffmann, as he recounts the loves of his life and the way he has been foiled by his nemesis—a marvelous James Morris in a tour-de-force performance of the opera’s four villains. Gwendolyn Bradley is the doll Olympia, Tatiana Troyanos sings the courtesan Giulietta, and Roberta Alexander portrays the innocent Antonia.

Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail(de)

The prestigious Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona presents Mozart's beloved opera in an elegant, dramatic twist with a sparkling cast of world-class stars, led by coloratura soprano Diana Damrau as Constance and rising star Olga Peretyatko as Blonda. Director Christophe Loy has created a thought-provoking and surprisingly original script in which both Constance and Blonda feel respect, admiration and even deep love for their captors. As a result of this tantalizing, torturous approach, traditional norms and concepts of good and evil were turned upside down.

Die Zauberflöte(de)

Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.

Un Ballo in Maschera(it)

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.

Beatrice di Tenda(it)

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov(en)

Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering and ambition of the Russian people at a critical time in their nation’s history. René Pape is riveting as the Tsar of the title, giving a commanding and charismatic performance of one of the greatest bass roles in the repertoire—his Boris is dominating, tortured, flawed and utterly unforgettable. The extraordinary cast and the Met Orchestra and Chorus are led by Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, the foremost Mussorgsky interpreter of our time.

Un Ballo in Maschera(it)

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.