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.

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

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

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

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

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...

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

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

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

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

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Francesco Cileo wrote this opera about the real life Adriana Lecouvreur, a French actress from the 1...

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

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

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 ...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...