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.

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

This short animation draws on advanced digital technologies to offer a new vision of dance in cinema...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

With this performance of the Missa solemnis Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Ro...

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

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

The historic, original, live airing of what would become an annual Christmas tradition throughout th...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien...

Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...