Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life.
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein i...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
This film takes us behind the scenes of the magical events of the world famous Vienna State Opera. T...
This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Perform...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. This concert, broadcast ...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...
Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...
After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...
Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Viva Vivaldi! is a concert by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli interspersing arias from the...
The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...