The Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera collaborate in Wayne McGregor's production of Handel and Gay's classic opera, in which the nymph Galatea falls in love with a shepherd named Acis.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur was inspired by the real-life story of a celebrated actress at ...

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...

Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again fee...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eury...