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.

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

When a young accountant is devastated after discovering his inspiringly beautiful girlfriend is chea...

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retel...

After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Iren...

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

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

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

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

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

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...