Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachino Rossini's epic opus ERMIONE is based on Jean Racine's play "Andromache." Set in Troy after the city fell to the Greeks, the production recounts the rancorous battle between widow Andromache and Helen of Troy's green-eyed daughter, Ermione for the love of Pyrrhus
a film opera; music by: Gaetano Donizetti (Philharmonic Orchestra of Rome) Directed by Giuseppe Zedd...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Originally set in the 15th century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day in...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next o...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Star soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation in her first Met performances as the malevolent Lady ...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...