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.
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
Four outstanding works by world-renowned Czech dancer and choreographer Jiří Kylián performed for th...

Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging w...
Few singers have plumbed the depths of the role of Violetta as did she incomparable soprano Renata S...

La Traviata was recorded at what was one of Venice's most exquisite 18th-century opera houses, La Fe...

Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 201...

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" find their lives parallel t...

The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic li...

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual d...

A mythical performance from la Monnaie - Bruxelles. Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the...

Wagner's tale of the struggle between spiritual and profane love, and of redemption through love, is...

When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Be...

Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Syl...
A widow attempts to reunite with her daughter who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for mu...

In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable v...

A religious mystery opera; a magnificent doomsday vision. Composer Rued Langgaard's opera on the mor...

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofma...

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her d...