This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisian cinemagoers flocked to it in the first six week. It was nominated for two Oscars (for production and costume design) and won BAFTAs in those two categories, as well as receiving BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations as 1983’s Best Foreign-Language Film.

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

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

The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...

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

Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.

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

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

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...

Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-oper...

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their m...