
Part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Pesaro composer, Il Barbiere ...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

In 1935, renowned Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz visits psychiatrist Sobral Cid, trying to convin...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

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

"The Queen of Spades" is considered Tchaikovsky's best creation by the world-famous conductor, Peopl...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...

It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...