Venetian intrigue takes a starring role in a rare gem by Donizetti.
Lush and enigmatic, 'The Woman with No Shadow' may be Strauss's most beautiful opera.
Lust triumphs over loyalty, in Monteverdi's sensuous final opera
Agostino Steffani bridges the Baroque gap
An ideal situation turns tragic, in Rossini's early masterpiece
By popular acclaim, a chorus becomes an anthem
Gounod's opera features a visitor lacking in subtlety, yet devilishly effective
Casual cruelty comes full circle in a grim psycho-drama
Verdi finds intrigue, love and tragedy in a fiery drama by Schiller
It's romance at any price in Mozart's final opera
Sparkling Italian comedy, in a distincly Czech style
Rossini's final opera offers riches aside from just the "Lone Ranger music"
An evocative swirl of religion and folklore from Rimsky-Korsakov
Two groundbreaking operas, both telling the same mythic story
A young Wagner cuts loose in his only outright comic opera
