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.

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises...

When Claudia Clodetti's venerable clown school invites applicants to show their skills in keeping qu...

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

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
San Francisco comes alive in this amusing chronicle of urban life. When Tyler has a drunken one nigh...

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

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war a...

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begin...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

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

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

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax pla...