Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper

Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus creates a climactic kaleidoscope of deep and convincing emotions. A highly credible incarnation of the pitiable Kleinzach he sings about, Aquiles Machado is the poet who loses his romantic idealism, his reflection and finally his soul to a '...

Runtime

3h 5m

Director

Giancarlo Del Monaco

Cast

Aquiles Machado, Katharine Goeldner, Milagros Poblador

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress Marie.

Runtime

1h 34m

Cast

Franz Grundheber, Waltraud Meier, Mark Baker

Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle also features the superb Patricia Racette as the sympathetic Ellen Orford and the Met chorus in a truly hair-raising performance as the oppressive...

Runtime

2h 48m

Cast

Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette, Anthony Michaels-Moore

In late 18th-century Italy, in the mansion of Don Magnifico, the young and pretty Angelina works as a maid. Teased by her two frivolous half-sisters, Clorinda and Tisby, Angelina believes she is in love with a young valet and goes to the ball. Dressed in her finest finery, she meets the man who is in fact the Prince and flees from him ...

Runtime

2h 36m

Cast

Ruxandra Donose, Luciano di Pasquale, Maxim Mironov

The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD release. Recorded in 2005 under the musical direction of Maurizio Barbacini, Fo's production brings fresh vitality and colour to the story of Lisetta, and of her father Don Pomponio's increasingly ridiculous attempts to find a husband for her ...

Cast

Cinzia Forte, Bruno Praticò, Pietro Spagnoli