An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethiopian princess Aida, and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris is in love with Radamès, although he does not return her feelings.
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion. 1969 CBC-TV pr...
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Classics on a Summer's Evening is an outdoor concert for an enormous audience which was staged in an...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
An interpretation of Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen," which is presented in an artful form with a twi...