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.

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...
Four outstanding works by world-renowned Czech dancer and choreographer Jiří Kylián performed for th...

Beginning on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, “Brave Enough,” documents violinist Lindsey Stirling...

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

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the l...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and...

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

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

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

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

Sir Simon Rattle, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin give an impeccable perform...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Joseph, favored son of Jacob and great-grandson of Abraham, is sold into slavery by his jealous brot...