Fabio Luisi

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff in Venedig (2022)

The Choir and Orchestra of the La Fenice Theatre, conducted by Fabio Luisi, take over Piazza San Marco in Venice for a grandiose concert. Facing the basilica, the musicians perform the famous cantata "Carmina burana", twenty-four medieval poems set to musi ...

New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice (2022)

The world's largest classical music event. A blend of tradition and modernity, the 2022 edition of the New Year's Concert welcomes Daniel Barenboim to conduct one of the greatest orchestras in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic. ...

Verdi - Simon Boccanegra (2020)

Andreas Homoki realized this production in the middle of the pandemic, and its extraordinary premiere was celebrated with only 50 audience members in attendance and a huge television audience watching on Arte from their homes. Homoki created fleshed-out ch ...

Verdi: Nabucco (2019)

A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich. ...

Das Land des Lächelns (2017)

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2016)

Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart's version of the legend of Don Juan, creating a vivid portrait of a man who is a law unto himself, and all the more dangerous for his eternally seductive allure. Adam Plachetka is his occasi ...

Alban Berg - Wozzeck (2016)

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck's lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has ...

Verdi: Macbeth (2015)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi's retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy. She is joined by Željko Lucic, who brings dramatic intensity and vocal author ...

Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2015)

The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres ever since the Renaissance. Vincenzo Bellini's much too rarely staged Romeo and Juliet opera, I Capuleti e ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci (2015)

Director David McVicar's new production brings opera's favorite double bill to new life, setting the two operas in the same Sicilian setting, separated by two generations. Marcelo Álvarez takes on the rare feat of singing both leading tenor roles. In Cava ...

The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth (2014)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi's retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy. She is joined by Željko Lučić, who brings dramatic intensity and vocal auth ...

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2013)

Berlioz's epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in his Met debut, stars as the hero charged by the gods with the founding of the city of Rome. Susan Graham is ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Aida (2012)

The Met's spectacular production of Verdi's Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimacy of this powerful tale of love and politics. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Aida, the Ethiopian princess-turned-slave in love with the Egyptian warrior Radamès, ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera (2012)

David Alden's elegant 2012 production moves Verdi's thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired by film noir. Marcelo Álvarez is Gustavo III, the Swedish king in love with Amelia (Sondra Radvanovsky), the wife of his best friend and counselor, Count An ...

Massenet: Manon (2012)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly's acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met. Manon's story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the grea ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2011)

Robert Lepage's remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fab ...

Der Rosenkavalier (2007)

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed mo ...

Richard Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer (Orchestra Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) (2020)

The Dutchman - Thomas Gazheli Senta - Marjorie Owens Daland - Mikhail Petrenko Erik - Bernhard Berchthold Mary - Annette Jahns Daland's Steerman - Timothy Oliver Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus (chorus master: Lorenzo Fratini) ...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2018)

The ambiguities of Verdi's theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently p ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2016)

Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart's version of the legend of Don Juan, creating a vivid portrait of a man who is a law unto himself, and all the more dangerous for his eternally seductive allure. Adam Plachetka is his occasi ...

The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2016)

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini's early hit. Richard Eyre's elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occupied ...

Macbeth (2014)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation with her riveting performance as the malevolent Lady Macbeth, the central character in Verdi's retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy. She is joined by Željko Lučić, who brings dramatic intensity and vocal auth ...

Wagner's Dream (2012)

The stakes could not be higher as visionary director Robert Lepage, the world's greatest singers, and the Metropolitan Opera tackle Wagner's Ring cycle. An intimate look at the enormous theatrical and musical challenges of staging opera's most monumental w ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2012)

Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place. ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni (2011)

Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnation, Mozart created an enduring masterpiece that has been a cornerstone of the repertory since its 1787 premiere. The opera offers a rare opportun ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2011)

Robert Lepage's remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fab ...

In Search of Beethoven (2009)

In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. Eleven ...

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (2006)