"The Silken Ladder" - Dormont is the teacher and guardian of the beautiful Giulia, and he is determined that she will marry Blansac despite her continual rejection of his advances. The fact is that Giulia is already married to Blansac's friend Dorvil, who every night is able to exercise his conjugal rights because Giulia lowers a ladder made of silk down to him from her bedroom window.
In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Flo...
In this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time a...
Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pa...
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...
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Audiences went wild for Bartlett Sher’s dynamic production, which found fresh and surprising ways to...
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A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
This is funny or rather crazy adaptation of classical opera Carmen inspired by famous czech theatre ...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
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This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...
Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacell...