The Queen of the Night has begged Prince Tamino to free her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the High Priest Sarastro, who has abducted her. Together with the bird-catcher Papageno, Tamino enters Sarastro's realm to seek her. When he finds her, the two fall in love, but they have to have to undergo ordeals before they can be together. At the end, Papageno is also rewarded with his Papagena.

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one...

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with t...

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...
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...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for s...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New Y...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

Oasis Knebworth 1996 - the eagerly anticipated feature length documentary telling the story of the s...

Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...

The Biblical story of Belshazzar's hubristic arrogance, set against the valour of the young warrrior...

I usually don't like classic operas with modernized production and costumes. This one is an exceptio...

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

Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghi...