The Peter Sellars production of Handel's "Theodora", recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival in May 1996. Dawn Upshaw stars as Theodora, with David Daniels as Didymus, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Irene, Richard Croft as Septimius, and Frode Olsen as Valens. William Christie conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is de...
Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.
Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fa...
Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.
Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005.
David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired b...
Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to...
It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerm...
Live performance from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, February 25 2016.
Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering a...
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than S...
Join the Muppets' best sidekick, Beaker as he spreads his passion for the classics with his renditio...
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of b...
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert h...
Journeying across Varanasi, Lucknow, and Muzzafarpur in India, this documentary film traces the lost...