Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted by the ghosts of a previous manservant and governess…
Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas ...
As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the fut...
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Jua...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus...
This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, a...
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given....
In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...
What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One ...
A surreal movie by peter Weigl starring Michael Biehn and Lubomir Kafka.
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario ...
Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's to...
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...