The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. He is torn between the tragicomic routine of an opera house and his own perception of Wagner and the Ring cycle. The film witnesses the director’s drama in maintaining the fragile link between a well-constructed performance and his own vision that lies within the music and the narrative, and is seen as German expressionism-like nightmares.

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downri...

The production by Deutsche Oper Berlin achieves a beautiful balance between the stage drama and the ...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholom...
Eugen Suchoň's opera Svätopluk returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre Opera in 2023. Si...

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušin...

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an...

A group of merchants and vikings navigate dramatic events both within and without in this epic music...

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful ...

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

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers...

Performed live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gluck's opera in three acts is conducted by ...

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations a...

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...

Sasha Regan’s award-winning All-male Company are set to lift everyone’s spirits with a treat in thei...

This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and condu...