The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. This concert, broadcast in two parts, on 26 March and 2 April 1949, from NBC Studio 8H, features the opera "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi. (Both broadcasts were released as "Vol. 3" in the DVD series.)

There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheles...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

After the great success of his Beethoven cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestr...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekk...

A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereu...

Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor ...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...

A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the En...

A 1985 performance of Luchino Visconti's 1958 staging for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Bern...
Smetana's penultimate opera premiered on September 18, 1878, at the New Czech Theater. At the Nation...

The most popular Czech comic opera, with a libretto by Karel Sabina, marking the 200th anniversary o...

The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critically acclaimed Emmy-nominated product...

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra...

A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Na...

The film traces the career of some of the winners of this new generation nicknamed the "K-Classics G...