Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet in three acts, is present by the Ballet Company of the National Op...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last pla...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Originally set in the 15th c century, Tchaikovsky's "The Enchantress" is updated to the present day ...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of th...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hand...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the cont...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
A collaboration between award-winning American filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Italia haute couture king...