Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…

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Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conqu...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel...

A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure...

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Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...

Opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hector Berlioz's version (1859)

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

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ENO revival of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as reimagined in a 1930s grand hotel settin...
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

Paying a rare visit to her estate, a countess clashes with the man she hired to manage it.