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.
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...
This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and condu...
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...
Francesco Cileo wrote this opera about the real life Adriana Lecouvreur, a French actress from the 1...
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...
This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...
Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
Verdi’s admiration for Shakespeare led to such masterpieces as Othello and Falstaff, and if the earl...
José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...
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...