Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brot...
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceres...
The strong bond between two brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at od...
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Zaporozhets za Dunayem (Ukrainian: Запорожець за Дунаєм, translated as A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyon...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Massenet’s tale of passion, excess, and their consequences stars rising soprano Lisette Oropesa in t...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Performed at Madrid's historic Teatro Real in 2018, Ivor Bolton conducts Benjamin Britten's opera ba...
The beautiful young Sushila is forced into a political marriage with young Pharaoh Nemorat in order ...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...