Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's high-profile exit during the second performance. Egypt and Ethiopia are at war. Radames is appointed commander of the Egyptian forces by the King, whose daughter, Amneris, loves Radames. It is in fact Amneris' Ethiopian slave Aida whom Radames loves. Ramades wins the war against the Ethiopians, capturing Aida's father Amonasro in the process. On his return to Egypt he faces a choice between marrying Amneris or betraying his country through his love for Aida.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
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Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
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The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
a film opera; music by: Gaetano Donizetti (Philharmonic Orchestra of Rome) Directed by Giuseppe Zedd...
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Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new product...
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
The water fairy Rusalka falls in love with an earthly prince. In vain, Father Aquarius warns her. He...
A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...
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Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...