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.)

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled han...

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A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

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...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Hu...

The Biblical story of Belshazzar's hubristic arrogance, set against the valour of the young warrrior...

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the Peopl...

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...

I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact ...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves ...