Nabucco, King of Babylon, takes Jerusalem in his war with the Israelites – but his daughter Fenena loves the Israelite Ismaele. She releases their prisoners, leading her vengeful half-sister Abigaille to plot to take power. Nabucco declares himself a god and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Abigaille tricks the now feeble king into signing a death warrant for the Israelites, including Fenena and Ismaele. Nabucco prays to the God of Israel for forgiveness; his sanity is restored and he saves the prisoners from death. He converts himself and his people, while Abigaille commits suicide.

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

The man looks back on a turbulent love life, which he does not dare to opt definitively for a perman...

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

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When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...

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A Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer S...

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

Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...

The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, ...

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...

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