Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to the high-ranking Sir Joseph Porter. A secret about the characters' true identities revealed by Little Buttercup, which leads to a farcical resolution.

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destin...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twent...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libre...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

Production of Mozart's opera about the Spanish nobleman who seeks to rescue his beloved Konstanze fr...

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau'...

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal...

Left behind by her friends on a boat trip, contemporary teen Mabel takes pursuit but is knocked unco...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus crea...

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been appr...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand compari...

The moon landing is juxtaposed to Dante and Beatrice's journey through paradise in this visual orato...

Jean-Marie Villegier's modern interpretation of Handel's "Rodelinda" – filmed live at the world-reno...

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic...

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and there...