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.
The sequel to the 2013 short, August sings Carmen 'Habanera'. After Elfie and her nerdy son August s...
In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores o...
With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker s...
An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent...
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Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, a...
Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime port...
Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The...
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de ...
When Jephthah, a biblical parable adapted from the Book of Judges, begins, the people of Israel are ...
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that w...
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...
Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan...
Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they tr...
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty betwee...
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...
One of Borzage's last films. This tells the story of a little quaker girl's encounter with the grea...