Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his palace as his fiancé. The Prince’s aid Murman loses his self-control at Eteri’s beauty and gives her a spelled necklace as a wedding gift. Eteri contracts a mysterious disease that only Murman is capable to heal.
This production is a gala affair; the sets are traditional (evocative of 18th-19th century Spain); t...
The spectacular production from the 2007 festival at the historic Arena di Verona. Renowned Verdi si...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, ...
The season kicks off with Boitos resplendent retelling of Goethes Faust, a monumental work of 'chora...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa col...
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a ke...
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are s...
While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfan...
Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of No...
Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his p...
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...
Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composers lifetime th...
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by...
In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performanc...
Early Rossini has a youthful, buoyant vibrancy about it, even in the dark swirls of drammi per music...