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Verdi: Otello (2015)
7 / 10

Music

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great...

Les Paladins (2005)
2 / 10

Music

"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work,...

River of Fundament (2014)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Turandot (2002)
0 / 10

Music

This movie was recorded during the 2002 Salzburg Festival. Valery Gergiev provides a quite good performance, as he uses to do, and the stage presents...

La Bohème (2008)
9 / 10

Music, Romance

Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden...

La Bohème (1994)
8 / 10

Romance, Music, Drama, TV Movie

In the 50's, in Paris, the neighbors Rodolfo and Mimi meet each other when Mimi's candle blows out in a cold and dark night. They immediately fall in...

La Traviata (2006)
8 / 10

Romance, Music, Drama

This superb 2006 production of the Los Angeles Opera's La Traviata stars Renée Fleming, who joins the ranks of the elite handful of sopranos whose...

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
10 / 10

Music, Drama, History

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto,...

Romeo et Juliette - Liceu (2018)
7 / 10

Music

Lulu (1996)
7.2 / 10

Music

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make...

Prodaná nevěsta (1962)
0 / 10

Music, TV Movie

Verdi: La Traviata (2007)
5.2 / 10

Music

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society,...

Rusalka (1986)
0 / 10

Music, Documentary

Dalibor (2022)
0 / 10

Music

Dalibor is based on events that took place in the 15th century: having led a peasant revolt, the Knight Dalibor of Kozojedy was imprisoned, by order...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House) (2001)
10 / 10

Music

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for...

Turandot (2015)
0 / 10

Music

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downright exciting! and I found the singing, acting,...

Tosca (2001)
0 / 10

Music

Tosca, suspecting his lover is seeing anothe woman, turn him, painter Mario Cavaradossi, to Baron Scarpia.

Don Giovanni (2013)
0 / 10

Music

Mozart’s Don Giovanni was first performed in 1787, and was based on the story of the Spanish lothario, Don Juan. The title character seduces,...

Salome (2020)
6 / 10

Music, Drama

Based on Oscar Wilde's lurid play, it is an intense exploration of the Salome story. Its sumptuous vocal and orchestral writing seethes and pulsates...

Massenet: Thaïs (2008)
0 / 10

Music

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to...