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.

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the e...

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

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have al...

CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

The first-ever audio-visual recording of this opera – directed by Christof Loy, conducted by Marc Al...

For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magi...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...

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

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside ...

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...

José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find h...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China...

The King of the Waltz stages a spectacular anniversary concert in the Netherlands' most romantic cit...

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

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...