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.

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

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

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both ...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...

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

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...

Vivian, Roe, JJ, Ines and a mysterious French man through a 20 year musical memory of New York City....

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

Lucia’s brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo. He...

Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena l...

An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and...

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...