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.

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

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

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

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

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Parisian courtesan, Violetta meets the romantic aristocrat Alfredo and finds herself in love for the...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

Vivian, Roe, JJ, Ines and a mysterious French man through a 20 year musical memory of New York City....

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

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cro...

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

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

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

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Sal...

A ten-year-old girl meets famed opera singer Enrico Caruso on a train between Boston and New York. S...

A transfixing, rarely-seen 16mm miniature made as part of Rohrwacher's opera production of La travia...