The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.
Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
Engelbert Humperdinck's beloved musical fairy tale HÄNSEL UND GRETEL is brought to life by Sir Georg...
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teache...
Opera Australia's 1976 production of Lakmé, an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French lib...
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjor...
A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...
Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his tr...
This 1969 BBC production is about as close as we can get to a definitive version of Benjamin Britten...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.
Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a sto...
As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has alrea...
One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological st...
La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...