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 version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

A decadent countess, middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter to marry ...

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that st...

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

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

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

Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most striking...

Partners of an architecture firm mix their business with pleasure.

Lucrecia and Gerardo, a young and happy married couple, see their peace of mind interrupted when he ...

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and...

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

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves he...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...