Staged by the Salzburger Marionettentheater. Wagner's great epic condensed into two hours — compact, humorous and very exciting! Marionettes encounter actors and take us into a time tunnel of mythological entanglements.

Rufus Wainwright's original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns i...

A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival's lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Riz...

Henry Purcell's opera Dido & Aeneas, completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtak...

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging op...

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the cont...

Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep ...

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the a...

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi t...

In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Woz...

What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, st...

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location i...

"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Ex...

Clay animation film by Guionne Leroy, based on the music of Henry Purcell's opera "King Arthur"

The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak a...

Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For...

Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award no...