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Karine Deshayes, Michael Spyres and Amina Edris are featured in Bellini’s opera at the Festival d’Aix 2022.
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Karine Deshayes, Michael Spyres and Amina Edris are featured in Bellini’s opera at the Festival d’Aix 2022.
John Osborn is featured in the rarely-heard tenor version of Ambroise Thomas’ grand opera.
From Santa Fe Opera, featuring Simon O’Neill and Tamara Wilson.
Gustavo Dudamel conducts this performance from the Bastille Opera.
Asmik Grigorian sings all three leading roles in this broadcast from the Salzburg Festival.
FInal day of the opening Ring of the 2022 Bayreuth season.
The second say of Der Ring des Nibelungen, live from the Bayreuth Festival.
A live broadcast as the Bayreuth Festival launches a new Ring cycle.
Recorded July 14 at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Opening performance of the 2022 Bayreuth Festival, broadcast live.
Glyndebourne’s eagerly awaited new production comes to the Proms in a full-length semi-staged performance, complete with the raw elemental power of Ethel Smyth’s sweeping score.
Performance of July 11 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
A live broadcast of Umberto Giordano’s opera from the Bregenz Festival.
The very free adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set by Ambroise Thomas, as heard at Wexford in 2021.
Marc Albrecht leads Wagner’s early grand opera, recorded June 22 at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest.
From the Staatsoper Berlin, Anja Kampe sings Minnie, Marcelo Álvarez is the bandit Dick Johnson and Michael Volle plays Jack Rance. Massimo Zanetti conducts.
The cast includes Toby Spence in the title role and Katerina Karnéus as Kundry and the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North are conducted by Richard Farnes.
Baritone-turned-tenor SeokJong Baek and superstar mezzo Elina Garanca take the title roles in Richard Jones‘s new production of Saint-Saëns’s biblical opera.
Ermonela Jaho and Ludovic Tézier are featured in a performance recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris.
Quinn Kelsey gives a commanding performance in the title role, alongside Erin Morley as Gilda and Stephen Costello as the Duke of Mantua.
Live from La Scala, Ponchielli’s melodrama featuring Saioa Hernández, Daniela Barcellona, Erwin Schrott, Anna Maria Chiuri, Fabio Sartori Stefano La Colla and Roberto Frontali, conducted by Frédéric Chaslin.
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