Gregory Kunde

Andrea Chénier - Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2024)

Inspired by the life of the poet André Chénier at the time of the French Revolution, Giordano's opera with libretto by Luigi Illica, faithfully portrays in detail the story of the protagonist, his love for Maddalena di Coigny, his arrest as a counter-rev ...

Aida - Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (2023)

Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. The ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer together, each must make a painful choice between their loyalty to home, and their ...

Turandot (2020)

After twenty years of absence, Puccini's Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director Robert Wilson. One of the most important theatre and visual artist of our times, the director who gave life to Phil ...

Don Carlos [Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège] (2020)

Turandot - Teatro Comunale Bologna (2019)

The story is by the dramatist Carlo Gozzi and dates from 1762, telling of the Chinese princess Turandot, who sets her suitors three riddles in order to marry her. Only the suitor who solves the riddle may ask for her hand in marriage, otherwise death await ...

Andrea Chénier - Teatro Dell'opera di Roma (2017)

Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is based loosely on the life of the French poet André Chénier (1762–1794 ...

Royal Opera House: Il Trovatore (2017)

The first revival of David Bösch's new production for The Royal Opera, with two casts including Maria Agresta, Lianna Haroutounian and Anita Rachvelishvili. ...

Roberto Devereux (2016)

In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux , one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena , Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims: "I d ...

Bellini: Norma (2015)

This new production of Norma, directed by Grammy Award-nominated opera, theatre and film director Kevin Newbury (winner of the Irish Times Theatre Award 2010) and starring Sondra Radvanovsky as a "powerful, elegant" Norma (New York Times) and Gregory Kunde ...

Verdi: Otello (2014)

Rarely has a production of Verdi's Otello been staged in such a prestigious location: the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice! This special outdoor "event production" of the Teatro La Fenice takes place amidst genuine late-Gothic and Renaissance arch ...

Luisa Miller (2014)

Verdi's lively opera Luisa Miller – filled with tricks, betrayals, and love stories – is performed at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège in a staging by Jean-Claude Fall and conducted by Massimo Zanetti. ...

L'Africaine (2013)

Live performance from Teatro La Fenice, 29 Nov. 2013. ...

Gioachino Rossini: Ermione (2009)

Hermione, whose consort Pyrrhus has fallen in love with Andromache, is torn apart by hatred and love. When Adromache yields to Pyyrhus, in order to save her son, Astyanax, Hermione is overcome with jealousy and invites Orestes to avenge her. Dominated by a ...

Rossini Zelmira (2009)

Juan Diego Florez stars in the only available DVD version of Zelmira, filmed at the celebrated Rossini Festival in the composer s home town of Pesaro. The final opera Rossini wrote for Naples is a dramatic and musical tour de force and a magnificent showca ...

Doktor Faust (2006)

Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning - is given a book on black magic from three mysterious students from Cracow. When Mephistopheles appears and proposes a pact with Faust, the two of them set ...

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2003)

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then t ...

Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala (1994)