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.

A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hu...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...

Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the ...

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent...

Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union bet...

Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, a...

Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime port...

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The...

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de ...

When Jephthah, a biblical parable adapted from the Book of Judges, begins, the people of Israel are ...

The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that w...

There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgar...

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan...

Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they tr...

Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint ...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...

A young journalist pays a visit backstage to interview an opera diva, but the conversation unexpecte...
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National T...

Maria Ewing, as Dido, heads an outstanding cast of young British singers in a film adaptation of Hen...