Un Ballo in Maschera

The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as Turandot, with Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as L'Imperatore Altoum. James Levine conducts.

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Kirk Browning

Cast

Éva Marton, Leona Mitchell, Plácido Domingo

A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

Luc Plamondon

Cast

Hélène Ségara, Daniel Lavoie, Bernard Lavoie

This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She drove audiences wild by the way her opulent voice caressed the music’s long phrases and sprinted effortlessly through the fiendish runs, trills, embellishments and stratospheric high notes. On...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Richard Bonynge, David Stivender

Cast

Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira

The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the audience's enthusiasm were unprecedented, not least because the company was staging a piece that is performed more authentically in Dresden than anywhere else in the world: Richard Strauss' Der...

Runtime

3h 15m

Cast

Anne Schwanewilms, Kurt Rydl, Anke Vondung

In late 18th-century Italy, in the mansion of Don Magnifico, the young and pretty Angelina works as a maid. Teased by her two frivolous half-sisters, Clorinda and Tisby, Angelina believes she is in love with a young valet and goes to the ball. Dressed in her finest finery, she meets the man who is in fact the Prince and flees from him ...

Runtime

2h 36m

Cast

Ruxandra Donose, Luciano di Pasquale, Maxim Mironov