Jiří Kylián has already made many masterpieces, one of them the fascinating Sleepless, a creation for six young dancers in which the set plays an important part. It has a wall behind which dancers – or sometimes just parts of their bodies – appear, disappear and return. The set allows unexpected ...

Don Carlo by G.Verdi, from Teatro Regio, Parma, 2016. Directed by Cesare Lievi, conductor Daniel Oren, starring Vladimir Stoyanov, José Bros, Simon Lim, Michele Pertusi, Marianne Cornetti, Serena Farnocchia, Ievgen Orlov, Lavinia Bini, Gregory Bonfatti, Marina Bucciarelli. Performed in Italian an...

The Nutcracker by P. I. Tchaikovsky, from Staatsballett Berlin, performed at Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2014. Conductor Robert Reimer, starring Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Linus Schmidt, Michael Banzhaf, Arshak Ghalumyan, Elena Iseki, Children's Choir of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin Orc...

Ercole su'l Termodonte by A.Vivaldi, from Spoleto Festival, performed at Teatro Caio Melisso, 2006. Directed by John Pascoe, conductor Alan Curtis, starring Filippo Mineccia, Diana, Maria Bartoli, Randall Scotting, Zachary Stains, Laura Cherici, Mary-Elen Nesi and Luca Dordolo. Performed in Italian

"“Procure me the unconditional fulfilment of my every wish for the rest of my life, let me embrace the world – the East and the South, which call out to me –, let me understand completely man’s actions and extend them in unheard-of ways; give me genius, and give me also his suffering, so that I m...

Anna Bolena by G. Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2006. Directed by Francesco Esposito, conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati, starring Mauro Corna, Dimitra Theodossiou, Riccardo Zanellato, Sofia Soloviy, José Maria Lo Monaco, Gian Luca Pasolini, L...

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production from the Zurich Opera, recorded on this DVD, Christoph von Dohnányi leads a particularly strong cast of singer-actors in a thrilling interp...