The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and high-spirited Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her. Carmen grows tired of Don José and falls in love with the toreador Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down to a bullring where Escamillo is fighting and murders her.

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's...

The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has create...

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the H...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this filmed studio performance of Mozart'...

AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Ra...

Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and trav...

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violet...

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and ...

Based on the tragic 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, the opera focuses on three climbers as they attempt t...

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto...
From the Baroque Theater at Český Krumlov Castle: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Or...
From pioneering radio broadcasts to high-definition transmissions in cinemas in more than 70 countri...

Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard ...

With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Sh...

Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor r...

James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just wh...