Martina Janková

알마비바 백작의 하인으로 일하고 있는 피가로는 백작부인의 시녀, 수잔나와의 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 희대의 바람둥이이자 호색한인 백작은 아름다운 부인, 로지나를 버려두고 수잔나에게 눈독을 들인다. 이를 알아챈 피가로는 수잔나, 백작부인, 케루비노를 끌어들여 백작을 골탕먹일 계획을 짠다. 수잔나인 척하며 밀회장소에 등장한 백작부인에게 백작은 영원한 사랑을 약속하며 구슬린다. 모든 사실이 밝혀지자 백작은 무릎 꿇고 진심으로 사죄하고 백작부인은 죄를 용서하며 축제를 계속한다.

The great soldier Orlando is lovesick and shows little intention of resuming his former glorious and heroic deeds. When Orlando enters, he is a man clearly torn between his love of fame and his love for Angelica. "Orlando teaches all of us that love is often responsible for our loss of reason," runs a line from Act 3 of the opera. It is a modest moral, and perhaps one not demanding of the dramatic finesse and musical diversity that Handel serves up in Orlando - for the opera's complex of problems is rather more complicated than that. Beneath the fabric of this masterfully woven constellation of characters and values is a score of such independence and vivacity as to give Orlando a special position among Handel's works - indeed among opera literature in general.

Live performance Zürich, May and July 2006. Modern dress performance which generated mixed reactions.

The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poetry - in its purest form - with operatic score, an end he came closest to achieving with his 1779 opera Iphigeneia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride). The story recounts the nearly fatal brother-sister relationship, its ultimate reconciliation, and the eventual Scythian-Greek truce as achieved by the intervening hand of the goddess Diana. The home video release Iphigenie en Tauride contains a film of a live performance of the work, as mounted by the Opernhaus Zurich in 2001. Claus Guth directs for the stage, with a cast that includes Juliette Galstian as Iphigenia, Rodney Gilfry as Orestes and Martina Janková as Diana. The Zurich Opera's Orchestra La Scintilla and the Chorus of the Opernhaus Zurich provide musical accompaniment.

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.