In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late twentieth-century man dwelling in a megalopolis.”
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an ...
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joy...
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the fut...
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased si...
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a co...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein i...
Originally commissioned to celebrate the completion of the Suez Canal and the opening of Cairos new ...
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out i...
Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic strugg...
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
Opera superstar Cecilia Bartoli offers her first operatic release on DVD in 12 years, and also her f...