Opera

The Met's production of Mozart's masterpiece updates the action to an amusement park inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s. Video

'Agrippina' was originally set in Ancient Rome, but Sir David McVicar’s staging updates the action to the current day: an era in which sly posturing and sometimes-questionable tactics continue to… Video

This opera gives us Mozart at the height of his powers setting a libretto of genius by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

New Zealand vocal coach Andrew Crooks is in self-isolation following a flight from the United States. He's using his time to figure out how best serve his American students by distance learning and… Audio

Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life. Video

Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social… Audio

Catfish Row on the Charleston waterfront is vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants. Video

This passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. Video

The intimate scope and subject matter inspired Verdi to create some of his most profound and heartfelt music. Video

Set in an apocalyptic pre–World War I environment, 'Wozzeck' was a sensation and a scandal at its première and has lost none of its power to fascinate, shock, and engage audiences. Video

An opera that combines romantic comedy, dreamy nostalgic fantasy, genuine human drama, and light but striking touches of philosophy and social commentary. Video

A sublime fairy tale that moves freely between earthy comedy and noble mysticism.

Verdi’s opera is a powerful musical interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless drama of ambition and its personal cost.

This work of extreme moods and colours explores life’s frivolities as well as the darkest impulses of obsession, addiction, madness, and self-destruction. Video

New Zealand composer Dorothy Quita Buchanan pioneered the Composers-in-Schools scheme in the 1970s, and has been an active violinist, pianist, teacher and publisher throughout her career. Video, Audio

Launched in 1931, the Met's Saturday matinée broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical radio series in American broadcast history. The 2019-2020 season marks the 89th year of live… Video

NZ Opera stars Anna Leese, Pene Pati, James Ioelu, the NZ Opera Chorus, and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi present a Gala concert in the newly renamed Kiri Te… Audio

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Jacques Offenbach, the Vienna State Opera brings his most famous masterpiece to the stage in a surreal production by Andrej Seban. Gallery

Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' is an opera in which a powerful man takes advantage of and abuses women. Tim Dodd talks to the APO's Music Director Giordano Bellincampi and Artistic Administrator Frances… Audio