Jean Rigby

7.0 MovieAccompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, composer Benjamin Britten's satirical look at life in an English market town delivers plenty of laughs. When Lady...

Albert Herring

1985

5.0 MovieTragic story of Golaud, his marriage to the long-haired Mélisande, her subsequent love for Pélleas, and their deaths.

Pelléas and Mélisande

8.0 MovieDon José is a guard who begins an affair with the tempestuous Carmen. He is imprisoned and loses his job, then flees with her to the mountains. When the relationship...

Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera

1985

9.0 MovieBizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert. Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989.

Carmen by Georges Bizet

1991

MovieThis is a live performance of BENJAMIN BRITTEN's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shot at Teatro del Liceu in April of 2005 featuring singers DAVID DANIELS, OFELIA SALA,...

Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream

2006

MovieThe tale of a quick-witted fox and her escape from confinement for a life in the forest.

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen

2012

MovieWith ancient Rome as a backdrop, composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera chronicles the undoing of the virginal Lucretia at the hands of Tarquinius. Stars Kathryn...

The Rape of Lucretia

1987

MovieRobert Carsen's production of Benjamin Britten's opera for Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2005

MovieGloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A...

Gloriana

1984