When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next one. But Barbe-Bleue falls in love with Hermia – who loves the shepherd Saphir – and soon wearies of Boulotte. So, he asks his alchemist to concoct for him an “anti-wife” philtre. But, as on the previous occasions, it is merely a sleeping potion and Boulotte wakes up the other five “dead” wives. They reappear, dressed up as gypsies and bring the truth to light.

Rashid, a modest meter reader, is smitten with Amina, a gentle and beautiful woman. Visiting her hom...

The Met’s spectacular production of Verdi’s Egyptian epic captures both the grandeur and the intimac...

An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

This film is the first adaptation of an operetta written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. It fo...

Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...

A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...

Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab r...

Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...

Country girl Margit sits for the artist Sándor, from Budapest. She is fascinated and charmed by him,...

Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...

Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a de...

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the ...

Hardcore and extreme triumphant Lindemann concert filmed in Moscow over two specialized nights.

A journey back in time for a selection of Kylie's best and biggest performances on the BBC, from the...

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

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