Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outside a nightclub in the second act, providing a window into her selfish fantasies. Not a recorded section of the opera, but a companion piece meant to depict the character's imagined realities.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Bill Morrison’s experimental short features decayed film reels from the lost, German silent film Paw...

L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary ...

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons ...

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conduct...

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic pe...

From the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Terme di Caracalla "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Director Jesus Lope...

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of ...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...

Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season ...
An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Moza...