Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.

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....

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archi...

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

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

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaim...

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

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

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

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.

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...