Operetta Costumes

Renée Fleming heads an all-star cast with elegance and glamour including Broadway legend Kelli O Hara and veteran baritone Sir Thomas Allen.Lehár s evergreen comic operetta - The Merry Widow - is given a gala performance in this sumptuous new MET English-language production.The scintillating score is given a glowing, subtle performance (New York Times) under Sir Andrew Davis.Renée Fleming reprises her role as Hanna in performances at the Chicago Lyric Opera in November and December 2015. Andr... [Read More]

Wagner's opera with Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randova, Bernd Weikl, Hans Sotin, Leif Roar, Matti Salminen, and the Choir and Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festpiele.

A lighthearted burlesque of Victorian English culture and the vagaries of love, The Mikado offers an ideal matching of William Schwenck Gilbert's elegant comedic gifts with Arthur Sullivan's agile and refined musicianship. The tale unfolds amid a fanciful version of Japanese society, in which a wandering minstrel has the misfortune to fall in love with the beautiful ward of the Lord High Executioner of Titipu.The sparkling lyrics and witty dialogue of this comic masterpiece are as much a delight... [Read More]

Heiner Muller's acclaimed production of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde', staged at the 1995 Bayreuth festival and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The production stars Siegfried Jerusalem as Tristan and Waltraud Meier as Isolde.

Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila is regarded as the first truly Russian opera. It established the tradition of the great Russian grand operas that followed from Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, and Borodin's Prince Igor to the operas of T