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This documentary by Susan Froemke follows theatre director Robert Lepage as he takes on opera’s most monumental challenge: a back-to-back production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle, the four-part, 16-hour...
A tale inspired by a medieval legend about an ill-fated troubadour, drawn into a liaison with an innocent maiden. But the couple are observed by the maiden’s jealous protector, who wreaks a shocking...
An opera by Britten with a libretto by Montagu Slater from George Crabbe’s poem ‘Peter Grimes’, which appeared in his book, The Borough. The borough in the opera is a fictional village which shares...
Documentary chronicling the life and work of Qi Shu Fang, one of the most well-known masters of Chinese Opera, who has moved, with her husband Ding Me-kui and their company of Chinese Opera performers to the...
This collection of five operas, and a rarely performed grand motet, offers a glimpse into the magnificent output of one of the leading French composers of the Baroque era. Jean-Philippe Rameau is renowned...
In a tragic-comic take on the extremes of celebrity culture, composer Mark Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas and director Richard Jones add Anna Nicole Smith to opera’s gallery of bad, sad girls....
Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) was far from being a musical revolutionary - and yet he had a crucial influence on the history of 20th century opera. He wrote his first opera at the age of...
Performance of Richard Strauss’s tragic one-act opera ELEKTRA, recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus during the Salzburg Festival in 2010. Some of the vocalists featured in the leading roles include Irene...
One of America’s most respected documentary filmmakers, Frederick Wiseman, presents a glimpse into the inner workings of the respected ballet company, The Paris Opera Ballet. Wiseman and his camera crew...
Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera is brought to life in a lavish feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm and starring the soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazón....
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