Alessandro Corbelli takes the title role in Annabel Arden's whirlwind production of Puccini's compact opera, in which the scheming Gianni Schicchi retrieves for himself the spoils of a disinherited family to pave the way for his daughter to marry her love.
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...
“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...
The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.