With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and personal freedom, Hector Berlioz went straight for the grand gesture with his first completed opera. Returning to it years after initial production debacles, Berlioz stated that he would 'never again find such verve and Cellinian impetuosity, nor such a variety of ideas.' The plot revolves around Cellini's wooing of Teresa, a match frustrated at every opportunity by his rival, the cowardly Fieramosca. Benvenuto Cellini is a pithy work combining romance, excitement, violence, comedy and spectacle; the perfect stage for Terry Gilliam's stylishly colorful and larger than life directing.

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

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto b...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...

A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is...

Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta performed at the Royal Albert Hall.

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...

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

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

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...