From the first steps of an emerging singer to the final bow of a celebrated soprano, 'PRIMADONNA OR NOTHING' follows three relentless women who sacrifice everything to be an opera star.
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissne...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena th...
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her pe...
Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country h...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
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....
The Zurich Opera gathered a superb cast for this production: Italian soprano Eva Mei sings the Count...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...