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.
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...
Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutiona...
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation...
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian pri...
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissne...
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Eld...
Recorded at the Musiektheater, Amsterdam on 21 & 25 January 2008. Performed by De Nederlandse O...