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.
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Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
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The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
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Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vi...
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy...
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring ...
The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak a...
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
“La Bohème” follows a group of artists struggling to make a living in 19th-century Paris. The poet R...
Famed countertenor Andreas Scholl sings the title role of Roman emperor Julius Caesar in this memora...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next o...
An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...