Kate Aldrich

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.

Meyerbeer is telling at once a small, intimate story – Fidès’s, Jean, and Berthe’s relationship – and an epic drama about tyranny, revolution, and religion; politics, mob violence, and fanaticism.

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.

Grand tragic opera in 5 acts by Richard Wagner. Libretto by Richard Wagner after the homonymous novel by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton.

Juan Diego Flórez protagoniza la única versión disponible en DVD de Zelmira, filmada en el célebre Festival Rossini en la ciudad natal del compositor, Pesaro. La última ópera que Rossini escribió para Nápoles es un tour de force dramático y musical y un escaparate magnífico para la superestrella del bel canto de nuestro tiempo. Grabado en alta definición en el Festival de 2009, la producción de Giorgio Barberio Corsettis sitúa el cuento clásico, ambientado en la Guerra de Troya, en los tiempos modernos y en el vestir actual Junto a Juan Diego Flórez se encuentra un importante elenco internacional, descrito como casi milagroso por Opera Today y encabezado por la mezzosoprano estadounidense Kate Aldrich en el virtuoso papel principal. Pero la velada siguió siendo otro triunfo distinguido de Juan Diego Flórez como Príncipe Ilo, cuya llegada a su patria, para rescatar a Zelmira, estuvo marcada por un deslumbrante espectáculo tenorial que suscitó una ovación de casi veinte minutos.

Actuación en vivo del Festival de Ópera de Salzburgo, agosto de 2007. La historia cuenta el amor de Cellini por Teresa, hija del tesorero papal Balducci. Su rival, el escultor papal Fieramosca, escucha a Cellini conspirar para huir con Teresa durante el carnaval.

Alain Guingal conducts the Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino in this production of Massenet's opera based on the novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Goethe. Roberto Alagna stars as the titular character, a lovelorn poet whose heart is set on a beautiful young woman of his acquaintance. Unfortunately, the girl in question has already pledged herself to another. How will Werther deal with the thwarting of his romantic ambitions?

Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.