The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to an...
A live recording of Carl Orff's world-famous musical masterpiece Carmina Burana, performed by more t...
Henry Purcell's opera Dido & Aeneas, completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtak...
The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Flemi...
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging op...
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caver...
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of No...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the...
The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. H...
Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a de...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...