The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic life of its composer Josef Mysliveček, a friend and teacher of W. A. Mozart.

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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...

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

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Jozef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new produc...

Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame wit...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's F...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

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

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

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

This Blu-ray is a splendid record of a creative production with terrific voices and direction, as go...