An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent energy and a plot abounding in tragic twists of fate. An ambivalent character, both regal in bearing and warmly protective, cruel and yet loving, rapacious and indomitable even in the face of madness, this ’Machiavelli among miscreants’ destined to become chief of police, uses his conquests to advance relentlessly in the pursuit of his aims whilst keeping his hand closely hidden. Guy Cassiers, working for the first time with the Paris Opera, portrays a three-tiered society where some rise and others fall.
Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their m...
One of Borzage's last films. This tells the story of a little quaker girl's encounter with the grea...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
The sequel to the 2013 short, August sings Carmen 'Habanera'. After Elfie and her nerdy son August s...
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonia Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the ...
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the...
In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores o...
With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker s...
Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union bet...
Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, a...