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.

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifel...

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...

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

A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. S...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

The pianist Kyra Steckeweh and the filmmaker Tim van Beveren search for traces where Countess Dora P...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

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101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

The 2021 production by the Dutch National Opera of the work by German composer Rudi Stephan (1887–19...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...

This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the w...

17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident th...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

I due Foscari was Verdi's sixth opera and based on Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari. Rich in intrig...