Warner Classics (January 12, 2024) – An aria powerfully reminiscent of Maria Callas’s own story, Tosca’s tragic manifesto, “Vissi d’arte” (“I lived for art”), unfolds in this illustrated retelling by Matteo Cozzo.
The story is told through the designer’s unique style, using the collage technique to create unique textures, expressions, and effects.
Warner Classics (October 20, 2023) – The voice and artistry of Maria Callas breath new life into the aria “O mio babbino caro”, from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicchi, in this entrancing illustrated video designed by Matteo Cozzo.
The video opens with Maria stepping onto the stage and kneeling, as the aria is intended to be sung. It then tells the story of this poignant aria through the designer’s unique style, using the collage technique to create unique textures, expressions, and effects.
On May 22, sopranos Ailyn Pérez and Nadine Sierra join forces with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard for a concert of popular arias and ensembles, live from France’s Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles. Tickets on sale now.
It’s an instrument based on the most fundamental sign of life: breath. Listen to the best music ever written for it.
The flute is one of humanity’s oldest ways of producing a beautiful sound, and it is based on the most fundamental sign of life: breath. Made from bones, wood or reeds, the earliest specimens date from the Paleolithic era. The flute is often associated with things elegiac, poetic, angelic — with purity — but also with the world of magic; in mythology, Orpheus seduces the underworld playing the flute. In this excerpt from Gluck’s Orpheus opera, the flute is extremely sensual, and, with its lyrical soaring, takes us from earthly pleasures to heavenly ones.
Soprano Renée Fleming sings the “Ave Maria” from Verdi’s “Otello” in the Met’s live At-Home Gala on April 25, 2020.
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare’s play Othello. It was Verdi’s penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 5 February 1887.