"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm. No pregnancy occurred.. In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.
Recorded on the 13th. of August 2016 in the city Torre del Lago doing the Festival Puccini at the Gr...
Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the g...
Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera, trying to evade Tom.
Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was s...
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...
Don Juan sins with his servant and is doomed in this tragicomic opera.
One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Gaetano Donizetti's La favorita in it's ...
Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1...
This 2021 Deutsche Oper Berlin performance is directed by Christof Loy and stars soprano Sara Jakubi...
Recorded in 1992 at the Ludwigsburger Schlosstheater, this release from Art Haus Musik features a pe...
The historic, original, live airing of what would become an annual Christmas tradition throughout th...
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j...
This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production ...
A young journalist pays a visit backstage to interview an opera diva, but the conversation unexpecte...