A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs to free herself from this yoke. When Sergei starts work on the family estate, she sees in him a chance for salvation. However, their subsequent affair marks the beginning of a descent into crime.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

After a beautiful young woman tells her famous choreographer husband that she wants to have a child,...

An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment ...

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The...

The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female’s body. He soon finds it very frustrating...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 producti...

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized ...

Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, th...
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to ...

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss T...

A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted ...

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, ...

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories th...

A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his...