A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strives to save his daughter from a duke’s licentious clutches, but can't part with the feeling that a curse looms over all of his actions. In Rigoletto, the composer introduces several of his most iconic arias and duets—as well as an 11th-hour quartet that counts among the finest moments in opera.
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Opera lies at the heart of Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful idiom, but performances are few and far betwe...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethio...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion. 1969 CBC-TV pr...
Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is i...
Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Classics on a Summer's Evening is an outdoor concert for an enormous audience which was staged in an...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...