Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka's magical masterpiece in its entirety, inspired by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's poem of a Russian tale. An evil sorcerer Chernomor casts a spell over wedding celebrations for Ruslan and Lyudmila at the court of Svetozar, the Prince of Kiev. Lyudmila vanishes and her father promises her hand and half his kingdom to the knight who rescues her. Ruslan on this quest of rescue encounters the knights Ratmir and Farlaf, the wise wizard Finn, the slave of Ratmir, Gorislava and sorceress Naina before confronting Chernomor in his magic garden. After all the challenges for Ruslan, true love prevails.

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female th...

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...

Set ten years after the events at the Paris Opera House, the Phantom has fled to New York, where he ...
Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wan...

Verdi’s monumental music makes this historic epic an enduring favourite. Davide Livermore’s radiant ...

The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak a...

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, ...

The history of the gypsy Aleko who couldn't forgive the betrayal of his wife.

Jess, a concert violinist whose heart just isn’t in it anymore, goes to Vienna for a performance. Wh...

Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 oper...

Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that ...

Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...

O Die Zee is a modern Dutch retelling Homer's Odyssey in the form of a rock opera. It was performed ...

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, ...

This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all a...

Eugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to in...

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location i...