Four young artists share a life that is at times carefree and at other times beset by extreme hardship, which comes to a head in a love affair that ends tragically.
Ariadne On Naxos by Richard Strauss is one of the most idiosyncratic operas of the early 20th century.
A dandy who is as wandering as he is incapable of commitment coolly rejects the love of a landowner's daughter – while she grows from this rejection, he breaks from his neglect.
The fateful love of the impulsive factory worker Carmen and the undaunted Sergeant José pulls the unlikely couple into a whirlpool of love, jealousy, hate and disgust.
Between elements of farce, comic and tragic opera, low and high style, Giovanni moves and makes himself the projection screen for the women he desires.
Six years before Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi set to music a gripping drama about love and revenge – and thus achieved his final breakthrough as a composer: Ernani.
With Verdi’s last opera, the composer and his librettist Arrigo Boito tried their hand at the light-hearted genre, a style that Verdi had not touched for around 50 years.
Ariadne On Naxos by Richard Strauss is one of the most idiosyncratic operas of the early 20th century.
Gounod's opera sets its own priorities: The old Faust is less tormented by the question of what holds the world together at its core than by the longing for love and youth.
When the megalomaniac king Nabucco falls into mental derangement and his power-obsessed daughter Abigail grabs the crown, the inexorable fate of the Hebrews seems sealed.
