This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gripping drama in Bizet’s score. At the center of the story is Agnes Baltsa, whose smoky mezzo is tailor-made for the gypsy Carmen, an independent woman who glories in obeying only her own rules, but who is haunted by fate. Superstar tenor José Carreras is Don José, the solider from a small town who catches Carmen’s eye and is destroyed by his growing obsession with her. Samuel Ramey is the charismatic matador Escamillo, who lures Carmen away from Don José with tragic result. Leona Mitchell is Micaëla, the simple girl from Don José’s hometown who cannot save him. March 21, 1987 Matinee Broadcast.

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as...

Includes the concert film, a “making of the concert” 30 minute documentary film shot in Puerto Valla...

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in ...

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...

Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in ...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

Grammy-winning rock group Evanescence performs live at the Zenith in Paris, France on May 25, 2004. ...

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and...

Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...

A compilation of professional footage and fan films to reconstruct an entire Tom Waits concert from ...

What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Dynamic are proud to present, for the first time on Blu-ray, Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra ‘The Thieving ...