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.

Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks ...

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...

Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep hi...

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

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

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio...

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in th...

Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, ...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...