The arias of La traviata are instantly recognisable. Yet at its London premiere in 1856, it was denounced for bringing 'the poetry of the brothel' to the stage and unleashing uncomfortable truths on Victorian society.
Documentary about opera in Hollywood.
What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attem...
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert...
In “The Oratorio,” filmmaker Martin Scorsese helps tell the story of an 1826 performance that foreve...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to an...
With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time and months of rehearsal, Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is ...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
This film takes us behind the scenes of the magical events of the world famous Vienna State Opera. T...
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the S...
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Documentary about female opera stars.
This film traces the life of Jan Kapr, a prominent Czech composer of the 20th century. A documentary...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. H...