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.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this...
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800...
It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once ...
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teache...
Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothari...