Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by Christof Loy. The Marquis of Calatrava forbids his daughter Leonora to marry the South American nobleman Don Alvaro. The lovers attempt to elope, but the Marquis catches them. In the ensuing altercation, Alvaro accidentally kills the Marquis, who curses his daughter as he dies. Leonora and Alvaro become separated during their escape. Leonora's brother Don Carlo di Vargas decides to find them and avenge his father.

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in tim...

The many passionate, fiery or lyrical vocal pieces of Spanish zarzuela have continued to thrive in c...

This highly acclaimed production of Strauss Salome from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is staged by G...

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

Opera in one act, libretto by G. Forzano based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Third part of his opera Tri...
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

The man looks back on a turbulent love life, which he does not dare to opt definitively for a perman...

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of th...

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
In the magical world of dancing fireflies, we follow the story of the main character - naughty Sväto...

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...

Part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Pesaro composer, Il Barbiere ...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...