Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love. However, just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are the progeny of two feuding families and do not have the right to love each other. Lucia, a magnificent flower shattered by the violence of a society of men, is embodied by South Africa’s Pretty Yende, a rising star of the opera stage, in this production by Andrei Serban, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

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

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

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

A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic music...

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

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

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Da...

Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the ...

Olga Neuwirth, for a long time one of the great composers of the present, succeeds with this opera i...

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

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.