Opera Live Performance Movies

In Tamerlano, Handel defied rules both written and tacit—offering a main role to a mature tenor at a time when the castrato voice dominated;...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.

“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious...

Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in this production of Wagner's opera recorded in 2015. Starring Stephen Gould as...

Live performance from Teatro La Fenice, 29 Nov. 2013.

Live performance from Taormina Opera Festival, July 15, 2015.

Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity.

This is a performance of Wagner's three-act opera Der fliegende Holländer ("The flying Dutchman"), performed by Bayreuther Festpiele, directed...