The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pageantry of Verdi's Egyptian opera, presented here in a staging that is true to the original 1913 production, framed by obelisks and sphinxes and filled with chorus and dancers. Chinese soprano Hui He has won international acclaim for her portrayal of the eponymous slave girl whose forbidden love for the war hero Radamés (Marco Berti, the experienced Verdi tenor) brings death to them both.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffit...
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last pla...
Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the...
In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceres...
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifel...
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveile...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brot...
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, la...