Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance.

A clown, and a lion tamer, escape from the travelling circus to live a free life in the forest.

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her f...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard W...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of d...

After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above...

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she s...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...