Brian Large

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

The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the ...

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of ...

With its hilarious hijinks and vocal virtuosity, Rossini’s madcap comedy always proves a delightful treat. For this 1988 telecast, the Met ...

Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped ...

Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for ...

Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great ...

Giacomo Puccini’s bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the ...

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner’s 1837 play, Alban ...

A recording of Horowitz’s historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet ...

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight ...

Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the ...

Live performance from La Scala in Milan. Nabucco was the first production of the theatre’s 1986-87 season.

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith’s ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to ...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti’s 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bernard Haitink memorably directs a superb ...

Live from La Scala Saturday 06 July 1985

This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to opera. Aida is the role that inspired ...

Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Stage direction by Piero Faggioni.

Set during the Crusades, the story of Lombardi opens with the rivalry of two brothers — Arvino and Pagano — who vie with one another ...

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.

Music – Witness three wonderful ballets performed live on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. “Sylphides” ...

The sets and costumes by Ponnelle are truly reflective of the ‘grand style’. Plus the fact that the two lead characters are portrayed ...

Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.

“Manon”, wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, “is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win ...

Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here — good enough musicians to put over the ...

In Concert at the Met (DVD) – Highlights Five of the Met’s greatest stars – Price, Horne, Troyanos, Domingo, and Milnes – ...

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s most ...

1982 revival of 1974 John Copley production.

This first-rate 1982 production of Verdi’s Falstaff marked the great 20th century Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini’s return to opera ...