Isabella is a strong, independent woman who has no intention of giving in to the clumsy advances of the powerful Mustafà. In the production by BAFTA winners Mosh Leiser and Patrice Caurier, which plays with prejudices about clashing cultures, Mustafà is no longer an Ottoman bey, but a shady gangster who traffics electronic goods in the port of Algiers.
In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Live performance from Salzburger Festspiele in 1987. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philh...
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased...
Candide falls in love with the beautiful but materialistic Cunegonde. Her barron father doesn't appr...
La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story, an exciting mixture o...
A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an i...
The Metropolitan Opera performance of L'Elisir d'Amore is conducted by Nicola Rescigno and features ...
David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by O...
Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a...
Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend...
Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...
Live from Glyndebourne 1994. The first production to be filmed Live in Glyndebourne´s new opera hou...
After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty....
Jerry runs into the Metropolitan Opera, trying to evade Tom.
Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition...