Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curs...

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten yea...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, ...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...

Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothari...

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...
A concert performance of the most famous parts of Dvořák's opera Rusalka in the park of Liteň Castle...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...