When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and the husbands rage with jealousy. These may be silly clichés, but they are the subject of IL TURCO IN ITALIA and the composer plays with them – quite deliberately. He knows that he is putting archetypes of Italian comedy on stage with figures such as the exotic lady-killer Selim, the young woman Fiorilla, who is chained to the stove at home, but adventurous, and her husband Geronio, who is ridiculous because he is much too old – and relishes the ironic exaggeration. Franz Welser-Most conducts the Zurich Opera House Chorus and Orchestra in this performance of Rossini's opera buffa.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonia Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman,...
Albino bat Bartok – former sidekick to the wicked Grigori Rasputin – ventures to prove his true wort...
A pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch...
An Italian teacher who revalidated her title in Argentina is assigned to a school in Jujuy.
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy a...
Prince bon-vivant Levan Phantiashvili finds himself in a difficult financial situation. To make his ...
Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.
After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prin...
Prince’s final performance of the Sign O’ The Times Tour stage show and his only on-stage collaborat...
A tour guide accompanies a beautiful multicultural group to discover Milan. But among them there is ...
Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a goo...
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
This outdoor performance of Carl Zeller's celebrated operetta was staged at the Seefestspiele Mörbis...
The story of a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world ches...
Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
Parade Tour live at Isstadion, Stockholm on August 22nd 1986.
A televised pantomime of Cinderella featuring various celebrities.
Princess Odette is hosting a music competition to celebrate Princess Alise's birthday. Prince Li of ...