In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.

A 2002 live performance of Mikel Rouse's Dennis Cleveland, a multimedia opera set entirely on a tele...

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the ...

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and int...

A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
The writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD releas...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there ...

Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on l...

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigol...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions...

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart h...

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rhe...

The tale of a quick-witted fox and her escape from confinement for a life in the forest.

At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected a...

Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod's score, which has been widely admired sinc...

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political a...

Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outsid...