A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God’s true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and sin. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force.
The film takes place in Baku in 1918-19 and then several years later. The film is based on the opera...
During the Turkish artistic revolution of the 1930s, a group of pioneers staged Özsoy Opera, the fir...
Don Juan sins with his servant and is doomed in this tragicomic opera.
In Trelinski's timeless production he leads a superb, first-class young cast headed by Artur Ruzinsk...
Young María, the embodiment of tango, leaves the outskirts of Buenos Aires and tries her luck in the...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National T...
Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso ...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Parisian courtesan, Violetta meets the romantic aristocrat Alfredo and finds herself in love for the...
With its cast of hundreds, thrilling score, and sweeping tale of love and heroics in ancient Egypt, ...
A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has many of...
Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild W...
Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taki...
Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, ...
Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—incl...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of fait...
This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the w...
Tchaikovsky's much-loved opera Eugene Onegin, a story of love, rejection and tragedy based on Pushki...