Attila

This 1981 Bolshoi production performed in the concert hall of The Kremlin is by far the best available, despite the more ‘historical’...

Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a...

The Ring begins with music that evokes the very dawn of time. From this moment we are plunged into the watery twilight beneath the river Rhine,...

A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death.

The legendary Eduard Haken as Aquarius in the first television production of the composer's most famous musical-dramatic work.

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster...

"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the...

A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a...

The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed...

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to...