La Rondine

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Rupert Julian

Cast

Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Gérard Corbiau

Cast

Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble performance of René Kollo, Johanna Meier and Matti Salminen with, then as now the Wagner admirer, Daniel Barenboim conducting the Bayreuth or...

Runtime

4h 5m

Cast

René Kollo, Matti Salminen, Johanna Meier

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà, Liliana Nikiteanu, and Agnes Baltsa. The conductor is Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Filmed live at the Zurich Opera House in February 2000 on a set which visualises the subtitle "The School for Lovers", t...

Runtime

3h 12m

Director

Brian Large

Cast

Cecilia Bartoli, Agnes Baltsa, Liliana Nikiteanu

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husband, Admète (Paul Groves), so that the people will not lose their king. Alceste is the...

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Robert Wilson

Cast

Anne Sofie von Otter, Paul Groves, Dietrich Henschel