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...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal re...

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

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

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

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

St. Margarethen is a magnificent structure and a grand setting for Nabucco. This venue, along with t...

For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places wh...

Opera Australia's 1976 production of Lakmé, an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French lib...

Henry Irving is dead. Join Irving’s restless spirit as he tells the story of how he transformed hims...

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

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

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

An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and...

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

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

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.