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.
Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord ...

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking ly...

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins th...

Premiered in 1787, “Don Giovanni” exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and ...

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American na...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China...

Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber int...

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...

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

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her ro...

Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...

In the Summer of 2009, the British director Nigel Lowery and the Iranian choreographer Amir Hosseinp...

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her...

A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.