Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."

Starring the exquisite coloratura soprano Emma Matthews as the innocent girl priestess Lakmé, and su...

Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...

Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...

A new generation of rising stars shines in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s most ...

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

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The hom...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

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

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outsid...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...
Francesco Cileo wrote this opera about the real life Adriana Lecouvreur, a French actress from the 1...

The fireworks begin when Madea’s family gathers for her granddaughter’s wedding. As usual, Madea rul...