Pier Luigi Pizzi

The story of Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American lover after giving birth to their son, ...

A staging of Britten’s opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.

“Die tote Stadt” is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, after the loss of his beloved ...

American soprano Deborah Voigt takes the lead role in this production of Ponchielli’s opera recorded live at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre ...

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the ...

Carl Maria von Weber’s romantic opera staged at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in 2002. Gérard Korsten leads the Orchestra and Chorus, with ...

For those with any interest in Vivaldi’s operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier ...

Among the greatest operas in Richard Strauss’s oeuvre, “Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose)” spins the tale of the ...

The story revolves around a Sicilian rebellion against the French, fueled by themes of oppression, freedom, and the personal costs of conflict. ...