Movies
- 2018
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla
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The central character of Mozart’s opera Lucio Silla is inspired by the historical figure of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, a dictator and Roman...
- 2016
Das Liebesverbot
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This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The...
- 2017
Rodelinda
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Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy Crowe and Bejun Mehta as Rodelinda and...
- 1996
Ariodante
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The English National Opera first mounted David Alden's production of Ariodante, one of Handel's greatest masterpieces, in 1993. It met with unanimous...
- 2009
Theodora
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George Frederic Handel's oratorio Theodora, in its first-ever staged version at the Salzburg Festival, was among the highlights of Handel Year 2009....
- 2018
Gloriana
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Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and...
- 2022
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
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Triumphantly premiered in 1724 at the King's Theatre in London, George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto masterfully combines human emotions:...
- 2019
Mozart: Idomeneo Teatro Real de Madrid
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- 2012
Deidamia
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Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves with `silly' costumes, but it actually works. I...
- 2016
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Ópera Nacional Holandesa)
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- 2006
The Abduction from the Seraglio
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Without question, this is an incredibly bizarre production. The revised storyline makes little sense, and there is a surprising amount of violence...
- 2011
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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The prestigious Gran Teatre del Liceu from Barcelona presents Mozart's beloved opera in an elegant, dramatic twist with a sparkling cast of...
- 2023
Achille in Sciro - CORSELLI
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Thetis, mother of Achilles, disguises her son as a woman to hide him in the court of King Lycomedes of Scyros and prevent him being sent off to the...
- 2021
Peter Grimes
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Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the...
- 2016
Saul
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Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his...
- 2017
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
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- 2006
La Finta Giardiniera
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Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer's first mature opera buffa. Hilarity mingles...
- 2009
Janacek: Jenufa
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"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore, Janáček faithfully and deeply...
- 2020
Cavalli: Ercole Amante
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This hilarious contemporary version of Francesco Cavalli's baroque opera Hercules in Love was commissioned on occasion of the marriage of Louis XIV,...