Based on Gluck's masterpiece and performed entirely on location in and around the environs of the Baroque Theatre at the Cesky Krumlov Castle in the Czech Republic; it's an opera production designed specifically for the film with outstanding sets and production values. Countertenor Bejun Mehta sings the role of the torn main character and acts as an artistic advisor, making for an involving and impeccably performed opera.
La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...
Beethoven's opera Fidelio, conducted by Karl Böhm, featuring Gwyneth Jones as Leonore and James King...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonia Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
The sequel to the 2013 short, August sings Carmen 'Habanera'. After Elfie and her nerdy son August s...
Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the ...
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the...
In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores o...
With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker s...
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...
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...