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.
The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and...
This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production ...
When Ayman El-Sersawy, a flirty businessman, marries his secretary Omnia, his frequent trips to Ital...
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...
After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Iren...
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord ...
In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingol...
It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrio...
Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy...
Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy...
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the gr...
Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself ...
Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-lang...
The historic, original, live airing of what would become an annual Christmas tradition throughout th...
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
The Queen of the Night has begged Prince Tamino to free her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the...
A young Czech theater director has an ambition to adapt Eurypides' Phaedra. However, having affair w...
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Ital...
Love conquers all – ruthlessly and irresistibly – as Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea remove the...