Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty and brutality are exacerbated by the confines of the prison. However, within its concrete walls emerge both tenderness and cruelty at the sight of an injured bird; a multitude of stories and highly personal monologues. With this production, first performed at the Wiener Festwochen in 2007, the Paris Opera pays tribute to Patrice Chéreau.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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

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

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular produ...

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 ...

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a t...

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

Starring Jonas Kaufmann as Bacchus and featuring Emily Magee with Daniel Harding conducting the Vien...

A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ard...

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, af...

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

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigol...

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has alrea...

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