Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...
Beethoven's opera Fidelio, conducted by Karl Böhm, featuring Gwyneth Jones as Leonore and James King...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonia Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
The sequel to the 2013 short, August sings Carmen 'Habanera'. After Elfie and her nerdy son August s...
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...
Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint ...
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of th...
‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score ...
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Sh...
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor r...
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the ...
Rock 'n Roll Junkie is a documentary about the extraordinary life of dutch rock 'n roll myth and per...
‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wag...
Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...