World of Opera's Hit Singles
Choose from a selection of opera's biggest hits, gathered from World of Opera's featured productions.
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A Love To Die For: Massenet's 'Werther'
Massenet's Werther is thrilling, tuneful and one of the saddest operas ever composed, ending with a suicide on Christmas Eve. Tenor Giuseppe Filianoti stars in the title role, in performance from Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Rejection Revisited: 'Eugene Onegin'
Tchaikovsky combined a personal, romantic entanglement with a passionate story by Pushkin to create Eugene Onegin, a fiery drama that soon became the composer's most popular opera.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Mozart's 'Idomeneo,' Busting Opera's Boundaries
Heading home from the Trojan War, a heroic leader makes a dangerous pact with Neptune that jeopardizes the entire community. It's Mozart's innovative Idomeneo in a production by the Bavarian State Opera.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Desperate Beauty: Britten's 'Death In Venice'
Benjamin Britten's final, haunting opera Death in Venice (based on Thomas Mann's novella) finds an aging writer obsessed with one particular kind of beauty that leads to his downfall, in a production from Glimmerglass Opera.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Mad About Donizetti's 'Lucie Di Lammermoor'
With a blood-spattered bride and a high-intensity mad scene, Donizetti's early-19th-century hit sets the standard for operatic melodrama. It gets a rare performance in its French version from Glimmerglass Opera, in upstate New York.
