With more than 50 years of experience as film director, Peter Greenaway (Nightwatching, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) combines the worlds of film and opera at the Verdi Festival in Parma, demonstrating what magic those two can do together with an all new approach to Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, staged and edited by himself and his wife, Saskia Boddeke. The opera's libretto is based on Friedrich Schiller's 'The Maid of Orleans'. It tells the story of the French national hero Jeanne d'Arc, who defends her country against the English troops during the Hundred Years' War. Constantly torn between her humble roots, her love for King Charles VII and her heavenly task to fight for France, she gains eternal glory by giving her life in the final, victorious battle against England.
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the fut...
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...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welse...
Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky st...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the w...
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his...
A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and...
The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic li...
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fideli...
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated producti...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...
Concert and documentary celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Moscow’s Zaryadye Hall