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Thanks to Donizetti, the historical figure Anne Boleyn has been sung by some of the world's greatest divas — from Maria Callas to Montserrat Caballé. With this new Vienna production, Anna Netrebko joins the list.

Forget Metallica and Megadeth: the lovelorn hero of Jules Massenet's opera 'Werther' romanticizes suicide far more than heavy metal headbangers ever have.

A gruesome tale of one very dysfunctional family, courtesy of Richard Strauss' intense one-act opera.

Wagner's lonely wanderer anticipates a generation of Westerns — in a vivid, dramatic and compellingly told story.

An opera that's wound its way into a host of other works, from Anna Karenina to Martin Scorsese's The Departed.

Puccini's genius: making an indelible opera out of ordinary people's stories. Vittorio Grigolo stars in this performance.

How Vivaldi — as well as Handel, Haydn and Rossini — made hits out of a single poem filled with passion, violence, mystery and magic.

Placido Domingo takes on his 126th role, as Bajazet in Handel's taut drama, Tamerlano.

An opera inspired by ancient Greece that gives a glimpse of what might have been — had its composer only lived past the age of 26.

Renee Fleming leads the cast as opera's most poisonous mother.