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.

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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 ...

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized ...

The historic, original, live airing of what would become an annual Christmas tradition throughout th...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets...

José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caver...

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...