Kristine Opolais

In Trelinski's timeless production he leads a superb, first-class young cast headed by Artur Ruzinski as Onegin and Kristīne Opolais as Tatyana. Mariusz Trelinski, Polish filmmaker and theater director, has created a series of dream-like, surrealist tableaux of great suggestive beauty.

A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, witches, and wood nymphs. In exchange for love, Rusalka will relinquish not only her mermaid magic, but also her voice.

The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.

La jeune et plantureuse Manon arrive à Paris accompagnée du naïf des Grieux, éperdument amoureux d’elle. Elle y découvre une nouvelle vie de luxure et de richesse à laquelle elle ne peut résister. Des Grieux tente désespérément de reconquérir le cœur de Manon...

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

More than two centuries after its creation, the emotional pull of this supreme opera remains absolutely intact. Dmitri Tcherniakov duly revisits the myth and makes the seducer of Seville a ‘man without qualities’, a cipher whose words have a hypnotic power over women. His words will disrupt the proprieties ruling the Commandatore’s family. His words are also what makes Don Juan such a subversive figure and the embodiment of one of the most powerful modern European myths. Leading the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is one of the best Mozart conductors, Louis Langrée. Bo Skovhus portrays a dispirited Don Giovanni, old playboy and anti-hero. Kyle Ketelsen is his servant Leporello, currently a shoe-in for this rôle. The superb female trio is composed of Marlis Petersen (Donna Anna), Kristine Opolais (Elvira) and Kerstin Avemo (Zerlina).

Une nouvelle génération d'étoiles montantes brille dans la production classique de Franco Zeffirelli de l'opéra le plus populaire de Puccini. Vittorio Grigolo incarne le pauvre poète Rodolfo qui tombe amoureux de sa voisine, la couturière Mimì, interprétée par la radieuse Kristine Opolais. Susanna Phillips est la coquette Musetta, Massimo Cavaletti est son amoureux Marcello, et Patrick Carfizzi dans le rôle de Schaunard et Oren Gradus dans celui de Colline complètent l'ensemble. Stefano Ranzani dirige l'orchestre.

Cio-Cio-San, une jeune geisha de Nagasaki, devient Madame Butterfly en se mariant à Pinkerton, un officier de la marine américaine. La jeune femme lui voue un amour éternel et attend patiemment son retour avec son fils, jusqu'au jour où Pinkerton revient avec sa nouvelle femme américaine.

Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in May 2017, this release features a delightful concert by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and conductor Andris Nelsons. For the program, the conductor has chosen works by Antonin Dvorak, including the Othello Concert Overture, and his famous Symphony No. 9 in E minor- “From the New World.

Kristine Opolais est la jeune femme dont les désirs contradictoires d’amour et de luxe conduisent à sa fin tragique, et Roberto Alagna incarne l’homme qui tombe amoureux d’elle dans le premier tube de Puccini. L’élégante production de Richard Eyre, qui situe l’action dans la France occupée des années 1940, a été l’un des moments forts de la saison 2015-2016 du Met. Massimo Cavalletti dans le rôle du frère de Manon et Brindley Sherratt dans le rôle de son admirateur vieillissant, et le chef d'orchestre principal Fabio Luisi est sur le podium.

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with people who look like fugitives from Mad Max and who interact with Mefistofele. The orchestra and choir are wonderful. Rene Pape gives a nuanced interpretation with a certain amount of sardonic humour under the evil. His singing and acting are first rate, as is that of Kristine Opolais and Joseph Calleja.

Kristine Opolais « offre une performance vocalement brillante et douloureusement vulnérable » (New York Times) dans le rôle qui a contribué à lancer sa carrière internationale, la mythique Rusalka, qui chante l'envoûtant « Chant à la lune ». La metteuse en scène Mary Zimmerman apporte sa merveilleuse imagination théâtrale au conte de fées de Dvořák sur l'amour et le désir, le rejet et la rédemption, donnant à l'œuvre « une mise en scène inspirée » (Huffington Post). Brandon Jovanovich, Jamie Barton, Katarina Dalayman et Eric Owens complètent « une distribution incomparable » (New York Times), et Sir Mark Elder dirige « une magnifique interprétation de la partition luxuriante du compositeur » (Huffington Post).

Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast of singers in favourite arias, duets and choruses from operas by Rossini, Donizetti and Puccini, along with the thrilling finale of Bizet’s Carmen. Italian baritone Vito Priante offers haircuts as the Barber of Seville, and Lisette Oropesa dazzles with her flawless soprano coloratura before being joined by American tenor Charles Castronovo for some heartwarming comedy in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina starts out as Cinderella celebrating her good fortune and then magically transforms into femme fatale Carmen for the tragic finale of Bizet’s great opera. The drama increases with Kristine Opolais singing the role of doomed diva Tosca, with Canadian baritone Gerald Finley joining her for the searing Te Deum from Puccini’s masterpiece. The chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House are arrayed throughout the stalls of the fabulous auditorium at Covent Garden to maintain social distancing. Presented by Katie Derham.

Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka’s lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with her sisters by her abusive father. But once she finally escapes, she is thrown mute and alone into an equally brutal world where she is utterly unequipped to survive, and he increasingly looks like a protector.