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

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

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

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

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

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

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between ...

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...

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...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

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

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. Af...