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On this debut album by soprano Serena Sáenz, she focuses her song selection on these musical adaptations of birdsong in operatic arias, inviting listeners on a journey through the centuries by... more

Zarzuela was born as a court genre in the 17th century, and became a mass spectacle in the mid-19th century, spreading throughout the whole of Spain. The success of zarzuela was in having sprung from... more

I Puritani is the last great masterpiece of the exceptional Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini. The intelligently conceived and thoroughly thrilling historical drama, written by the Italian librettist... more

The first staging of this opera in 43 years is powerful, thanks to the voices of Matthew Polenzani and Isabel Leonard. (Houston Chronicle) Premiered in 1892 and based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young... more

The setting of the novella Cavalleria Rusticana by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga by the Italian opera composer Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945) is regarded as the birth of a new style in Italian... more

Pasta and Vino Rosso! The great Stefan Pop takes you on a delicious journey through the Italian opera world of Verdi. When Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) started working on the opera Nabucco in the... more

Edita Gruberova, Pavol Breslik, Franco Vassallo, and Alice Coote star in this Bayreuth production of the Donizetti opera with Bertrand de Billy conducting.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic with Sally Matthews, Lawrence Brownlee, and Christian Gerhaher as well as the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaebenchor des Staats, and Domchores Berlin.

Christopher Maltman, Annette Dasch, Matthew Polenzani, Dorothea Roeschmann, and Erwin Schrott star in this Vienna State Opera production of the Mozart opera with Bertrand de Billy conducting the... more

Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Florian Boesch, Topi Lehtipuu, Patricia Petibon, and Bo Skovhus star in this Vienna State Opera production of the Mozart opera with Adam Fischer conducting the Vienna... more

Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michele Lagrande, and Hannah Esther Minutillo star in this 2008 Opera national de Paris production of the Janacek opera conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

One of the most renowned and ardent supporters of zarzuela melodies is Placido Domingo. He is accomapnied by the Mozarteum Orchestra under Jesus Lopez-Cobos with his partner for the evening, Ana... more

Luciana Serra, David Kuebler, Alberto Rinaldi, and Alessandro Corbelli star in this 1990 Schwetzinger Festspiele Michael Hampe production of the Rossini opera with Gianluigi Gelmetti conducting.