Mozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years. A few weeks before this telecast, the Met unveiled a new production of the opera featuring the colorful designs of acclaimed artist David Hockney. His bold colors and vivid images enchanted audiences and seemed to inspire the striking cast, led by James Levine’s affectionate conducting. Francisco Araiza is the young prince Tamino, who finds himself in a strange land, forced to undergo mysterious tests so he can rescue, then marry, the woman he loves, Pamina, played by Kathleen Battle. Kurt Moll is the compassionate Sarastro and Luciana Serra is the Queen of the Night.

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mis...

Dobrinya Nikitich goes on a quest to save the royal niece and finds out whether his old friend Zmey ...

Set in a Siberian prison camp, Janacek's final opera centers on the experiences of recent arrival Al...

A comedy about a young man who desperately wants to be gangster.

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on ...

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has alrea...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of th...

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...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, af...

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...