This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Jochanaan, her venomous hatred when she's rejected, the crazed look in her eyes when she demands his head--on a silver platter, no less. Such complete identification with a role, especially of a character so malignant helps make this 1974 Salome stand out among the many fine DVDs of the opera.

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...

From the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Terme di Caracalla "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Director Jesus Lope...

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...