A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian myster...
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire opera...
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...
The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd wit...
Prompted by Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, two young idealists decide to put their lovers’ ...
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de ...
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that w...
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...
Spiced with Italian buffa, L’Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada’s clock shop, the scene of ...
Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence tric...
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
The sequel to the 2013 short, August sings Carmen 'Habanera'. After Elfie and her nerdy son August s...
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond'...
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch ...
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In ret...
Martial is discharged from a mental insitution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous b...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
A playboy and a simple girl from the provinces try to make it in the big city.
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants ...