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Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas Schager

Observing in close up the students of the Opéra National de Paris' dance school, who day after day build their future as dancers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michaël Denard

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ermonela Jaho

A village somewhere in the Italian countryside, a wayside inn on a road crossed by the occasional dog. Nothing more. Laurent Pelly’s production...

Genre: Music

Cast: Valentina Naforniţă

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted...

Genre: Music

Cast: Thomas Hengelbrock

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Relyea

A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gerard Butler

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Piero Cappuccilli

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle de Niese

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nicole Car

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent energy and a plot abounding in tragic twists...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurent Naouri

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pretty Yende

The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lawrence Brownlee

An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both...

Genre: Music

Cast: Reda Kateb

Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence trick orchestrated by a falsifier willing to do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carlo Lepore

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eleonora Abbagnato

Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and unveils some of his darker sides.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Lonsdale

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Elina Garanca