Bellezza (Beauty) admires herself in the mirror, but knows that her beauty will one day pass. Piacere (Pleasure) tries to cheer her up, promising her eternal beauty if she remains only faithful to pleasure. Bellezza promises never to leave her, or else to accept severe punishment. Piacere warns of the destructive power of useless worry, but now Tempo (Time) and Disinganno (Disillusion) get involved in the conversation. Together they seek to explain the ephemeral nature of beauty, which quickly wilts like a blossom.
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...
Experience the story of seamstress Esther who begins writing to a mysterious suitor laboring on the ...
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....
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and...