The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame…” With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest.
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
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 ...
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchin...
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco...
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
A musical drama based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.
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...
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. ...
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-d...
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Gü...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...