Based on the first dance drama in China to center itself on revolutionary themes, this famous piece of Chinese media history was adapted for the screen in 1961.

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...

Donald Runnicles directs the San Francisco Opera in this lavish production of Giacomo Puccini’s fina...

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The hom...

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...

Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have ...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...