At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna. Her “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House becomes a sensation. Maria Callas wants to show everyone once again that she deserves the title of “prima donna assoluta.” On the condition that star director Franco Zeffirelli take over the direction, the exceptional singer agrees to sing the role of Tosca. The BBC recorded the 2nd act of the opera for television. It is one of the most dramatic acts in opera history: in order to free the painter Cavaradossi from the hands of torturers, Tosca ends up murdering the police chief Scarpia. The film footage is one of the rare opportunities to see Maria Callas in an opera performance and to experience her highly emotional performance art and vocal abilities...
This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of S...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenie...
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles ...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
A collaboration between award-winning American filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Italia haute couture king...
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.Symphony no 1 in C ...
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
Director David McVicar’s new production brings opera’s favorite double bill to new life, setting the...
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of th...
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that ...
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a ballet in three acts, is present by the Ballet Company of the National Op...