The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Their mesmerizing vocalism and chemistry explode in one of opera’s most heartbreaking final scenes. With Valery Gergiev on the podium conducting Tchaikovsky’s passionate score, this performance is one for the ages.

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright d...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...
A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...

La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giusep...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, dec...