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.
Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a de...
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...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
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....
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night ...
An operatic short drama surrounding the connection forged over an afternoon between a young aged car...