Francesca Zambello

A fearless young hero battles otherworldly challenges on a journey to discover his destiny.

A father’s blinding ambition and a daughter’s profound defiance drive the story forward in the cycle’s dramatic second installment....

As the end nears for the gods, and human ambition rules the world, Alberich’s son Hagen hatches a plot to take control of the ring, threatening...

The plot adheres closely to the original novel, revolves around wealthy Maxim DeWinter, his naïve new wife, and Mrs. Danvers, the manipulative...

George Gershwin miraculously melded classical idioms, jazz, blues, and spirituals in this quintessentially American masterpiece about a crippled...

George Gershwin miraculously melded classical idioms, jazz, blues, and spirituals in this quintessentially American masterpiece about a crippled...

DON GIOVANNI is one of the timeless classics of all opera. Mozart’s music, and the words of his great collaborator Da Ponte, are brought to...

She didn’t know his name. She didn’t know his background. But what Luisa Miller did know was that her heart belonged to the stranger...

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...

Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.

The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and high-spirited...

Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her...

Hammerstein and Kern’s Show Boat is a true classic of American musical theater - a tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s...

Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan...

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading...

Street Scene is a Broadway musical or, more precisely, an "American opera" by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). It...

When a free-spirited Gypsy is arrested, an impressionable soldier is charmed into letting her go. But having risked everything to be with her and...

In an opera version of the famous literature classic, during World War I, an airplane pilot crashes his plane in the Sahara Desert, where he has a...

Get ready for Das Rheingold, the first chapter in Richard Wagner’s four-part epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. Travel to a world where gods,...