Carlos Álvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas, with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production, first staged at London's Royal Opera House.

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...

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

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

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....

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

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...

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...

The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

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

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...

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 ...