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 great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strau...

Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buff...

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in w...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

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

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

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...

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

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

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

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

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about ...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only...

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