Yusif Eyvazov

Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all. Starring Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Yusif Eyvazov, Gregory Kunde, Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. On the podium, Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, featuring the famous Anvil chorus.

Anna Netrebko is the diva Floria Tosca in this 2020 performance of Puccini's evergreen operatic thriller from the Wiener Staatsoper. She follows in the footsteps of all the legendary sopranos to have sung the role in Margarethe Wallmann's classic production, unveiled as far back as 1958. Netrebko is joined by tenor Yusif Eyvazov as Tosca's lover, the hot-headed political revolutionary Cavaradossi, while baritone Wolfgang Koch is Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police who brings their romance to a dramatic end from beyond the grave.

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world.

집시 여인 아주체나는 어머니를 죽인 귀족에게 복수하려 그의 둘째 아들을 납치한다. 귀족의 첫째 아들 루나 백작은 장성해 아름다운 레오노라를 사랑하게 되지만, 레오노라는 만리코라는 이름의 음유시인과 마음을 나눈 사이이다. 분노한 루나 백작은 만리코를 체포하여 죽이려 하지만, 이들의 사랑과 욕망, 과거와 운명이 뒤엉킨 삼각관계는 결국 파국을 향해 치닫는다.

중국 베이징의 전설 시대, 극은 북경 성벽 앞 광장에서 한 관리가 등장해 율령을 반포하며 시작한다. 투란도트 공주와 혼인하려면 수수께끼를 풀어야하고, 실패하면 참수된다는 내용의 이 울령으로 말미암아 많은 남자들이 수수께끼에 도전하게 되는데...

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.