Charles Workman

6.0 MovieAn opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the...

Rossini: La Gazzetta

2005

7.0 MovieThis 2021 Deutsche Oper Berlin performance is directed by Christof Loy and stars soprano Sara Jakubiak in the title role. Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini is...

Francesca Da Rimini - Deutsche Oper Berlin

2021

8.0 MovieOpera superstar Cecilia Bartoli offers her first operatic release on DVD in 12 years, and also her first opera in English. Bartoli stars as Semele (a role usually...

Semele

2007

7.0 TVA short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on BBC Two. However, following viewer complaints of its...

Late Night Horror

1968

MovieStage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking adaptation brings bold modern...

Janáček: From the House of the Dead

2018

MovieThe reopening show of the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre by Jurowski and Tcherniakov. "Ruslan and Lyudmila", opera by Mikhail Glinka, has particular relation...

Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila

2011

MovieThe Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera collaborate in Wayne McGregor's production of Handel and Gay's classic opera, in which the nymph Galatea falls in love with a...

Acis and Galatea (The Royal Ballet / The Royal Opera)

2009

MovieTan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and physical discovery, a voyage depicting spiritual experiences as well...

Marco Polo (An Opera Within an Opera)

2008

MovieA splendid Jenůfa, one of Janáček's best-known operas, here directed for stage by Alvis Hermanis and conducted by Ludovic Morlot at La Monnaie / Die Munt in Brussels.

Jenufa - Théâtre de la Monnaie

2014

MovieL'Opéra National de Paris' production of L'Amour des trois oranges must certainly be one of the most elaborate operatic presentations. It has a cast of gazillions,...

Prokofiev - L'Amour des trois oranges

2007

MovieBellezza (Beauty) admires herself in the mirror, but knows that her beauty will one day pass. Piacere (Pleasure) tries to cheer her up, promising her eternal beauty...

Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Staatsoper Berlin 2016)

2016

MovieSet in Venice during the Renaissance, the drama centres on Bassanio, a young nobleman who would like to court the beautiful Portia but doesn‘t have the money to...

The Merchant of Venice - Bregenzer Festspiele

2014

MovieThe plot takes place in the Bay of Naples in the 18th century. Deeply convinced of women's infidelity, the cynical Don Alfonso provokes his young friends Ferrando and...

Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

2000

MovieDon Giovanni is a dramatic opera which tells the story of the legendary libertine and seducer of the same name. The opera explores love, morality, and the...

Don Giovanni. Teatro La Fenice

1996

MovieGioachino Rossini : Tancredi The city of Syracuse is tethered by conflict and war between the Byzantine Empire, with which it has an unstable truce, and the Saracen...

Tancredi

2004

MovieCardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of...

Cardillac