Filmed at the Vienna State Opera in 2005, Andrei Serban's production of Massenet's opera with a late 18th century setting pushes the action forwards to the 1950's,with the visuals exemplifying that decade with precision.With as much delicacy on display as naked passion,his(Alverez)morbid poet is outstandingly realised both vocally and dramatically. Together with Erod's dour Albert and Ileana Tonca's Sophie-clearly in love with Werther herself-the drama is set out with unusual clarity and realism.Philippe Jordan ensures that Massenet's pent-up emotion explodes exactly on cue,its expressive power providing impossible to resist.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the S...
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...
Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovann...
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...
A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transform...