Samuel Ramey

Jacques Offenbach’s opera Les contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffman) shown in the Teatro alla Scalla

1995 recorded performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, with conductor John Nelson.

A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993, conducted by ...

James Levine’s love for this seldom-heard score infuses every measure of Verdi’s music. Superstar Luciano Pavarotti heads the cast as the Muslim ...

The Rake’s Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. ...

Live from La Scala 1991

In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, King Ninus. Her son, Ninius, disappears, ...

Bela Bartok’s and Arnold Schoenberg’s haunting excursions into the nightmare of the unconscious.

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito’s retelling of Goethe’s Faust

This production of Giuseppi Verdi’s opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d’estime but ...

Claude D’Anna’s film of Verdi’s Macbeth is a gloomy affair, stressing the descent into madness of the principal villains. ...

TV broadcast of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera from L’Opera de Paris 1985.

The historic 1984 revival performance of Il viaggio a Reims was the first time in over 150 years the opera was performed. Set in a luxurious ...