No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
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Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

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A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

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

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

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

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

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A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

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Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.