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.)
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
Utterly astounding, iridescent sand animation from Aleksandra Korejwo based around Bizet's Carmen.
Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...
After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...
Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...
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...
Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...