Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and exp...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiven...
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800...
Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field...
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....
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...