Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer
A spectral sea captain, cursed to wander the open ocean for eternity—unless the true love of a woman can save him. Learn... Read more
4 Mar 2020
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11mins
Handel's Agrippina
Handel's Agrippina
Powerful men and—especially—women deceive and seduce one another to achieve their selfish ends, in a political satire as... Read more
19 Feb 2020
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11mins
Berg's Wozzeck
Berg's Wozzeck
An ordinary soldier is driven to madness and murder by an intolerable cocktail of humiliation, jealousy, and the indigni... Read more
1 Jan 2020
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12mins
Glass's Akhnaten
Glass's Akhnaten
A young pharaoh transforms ancient Egypt with his revolutionary religious ideas—a tale made modern through Philip Glass’... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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12mins
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
A clash of cultures and the heartless abandonment of a naïve young Japanese geisha lead to one of opera’s most devastati... Read more
1 Nov 2019
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14mins
Massenet's Manon
Massenet's Manon
A beautiful ingénue with a taste for the finer things makes her way to Paris, where she becomes irresistible to the men ... Read more
16 Oct 2019
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12mins
Puccini's Turandot
Puccini's Turandot
In ancient China, a princess tests the worthiness of her suitors by posing a series of riddles—killing those who answer ... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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14mins
Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
From a convent in northeastern France, amid the chaos of the Revolution, an order of nuns commit the ultimate act of mar... Read more
1 May 2019
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13mins
Wagner's Die Walküre
Wagner's Die Walküre
A gallant warrior-goddess bravely defies her father to save a mortal from certain death. Her sisters chime in with one o... Read more
19 Mar 2019
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12mins
Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment
Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment
She’s a spunky orphan brought up by an army regiment in the Alps. He’s the local country boy who falls in love with her.... Read more
20 Feb 2019
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11mins