Opera

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation proudly presents the first Australian film recording of Messiah. Made especially for television, DVD and CD, this brilliant recording took place at the historic St Patrick's Estate (Recipient of a Cultural Heritage...

This is the only full-length performance of Mussorgsky's opera. Conductor Yuri Simonov conducts the acclaimed Bolshoi Chorus in this fabulous program.

This tragic tale, set in 1613, concerns a lowly paesant giving his life to save the Tsar from the Russian people.

In this story, a grieving musician from Greek mythology follows his beloved wife to the depths of Hades in an attempt to bring her back from dead. Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Packed with Adventures on the High Seas, This Comic Swashbuckling Pirate Tale Was Originally Produced in the 1980's As Part of the Old Opera Series of Gilbert and Sullivan Works. As Several Pirates Wait for Their Favorite Apprentice, Frederick, to Come...

An American lieutenant marries a beautiful young geisha, to the dismay of her family. Shortly after the wedding the lieutenant departs for America, and his wife bears him a child, alone. Three years later she excitedly awaits his return, only to find to...

With it's romantic Viennese plot and lush waltz-time melodies, Arabella is one of Strauss's most popular operas.

This story of an alienated fisherman who battles inner demons and the loss of his apprentices is a Britten psychological masterpiece. Royal Opera House.

Brilliantly adapted from Shakespeare's play, this opera follows the adventures of four lovers and a group of native rustics.

Giuseppe Gazzaniga has earned a place in history as one of the forerunners of Rossini and is best known for his one-act Don Giovanni Tenorio (1786), written in the opera buff mold and one of his most successful works. It is the story of Don Juan, the...

Rodelinda is a tale of unrequited love steeped in jealousy, treachery and grief.

Handel's penultimate English oratorio tells a tale of self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard in fourth-century.