Lucia has fallen in love with Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother. She is ultimately broken by her unrequited love and becomes a murderess.

Julia Jones conducts The Royal Opera’s spell-binding production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with a cast including Roderick Williams as Papageno.

Richard Jones captures the blend of tragedy and comedy in La Bohème, and provides an analysis of Puccini’s young would-be artists and their lovers.

Kasper Holten’s 2014 production for The Royal Opera House casts Don Giovanni as an artist who thrives on an audience enticed by his creative gifts.

Take a front row seat as the "King of the High Cs" Luciano Pavarotti performs “Nessun Dorma” for over 500,000 people in New York's Central Park.

Based on the folktale that inspired the Little Mermaid, Dvořak’s best-known opera, ''Rusalka,'' tells the story of a nymph who wants to be human.

Sex, power, and greed collide in this high-octane rock opera exploring the darker side of the American Dream, filmed live on stage in New York City.

Esteemed director Christof Loy presents a stunning new production of Strauss' intimate psychological opera, Arabella.

Daniel Barenboim conducts Fidelio, a moral title associated with the ideals of liberty of the French Enlightenment.

Mozart’s masterpiece conducted by Giovanni Antonini on stage at La Scala with Michael Hampe’s staging.

Daniele Abbado explores themes of identity, exile and religion in this powerful staging of Verdi's epic opera with Plácido Domingo as Nabucco.

A deeply moving production of the traditional double-bill Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana is shown here at Milan's Teatro alla Scala.

This production from La Scala stars opera greats Jonas Kaufmann and Erwin Schrott, with newcomer Anita Rachvelishvili making her successful debut.

Plácido Domingo's triumphant return to his baritone roots is captured in this stunning Teatro alla Scala's 2010 production of Simon Boccanegra.

The opera-dilemma of maternal love and filial love is presented in the classical staging production directed by Hugo De Ana

The Royal Opera House's superb production of Saint-Saëns' opera, Samson and Delilah, skillfully directed by the multi-Olivier Award Winner, Richard Jones.

Glyndebourne's brilliant production of Handel's Giulio Cesare starring Sarah Connolly and Danielle de Niese.

Joyce DiDonato and Julia Bullock star in a bold reimagining of Handel's Theodora at The Royal Opera House.

Don Giovanni (Juan) retells Mozart's classical masterpiece as a story of the modern man's escape from himself and his demons.

Benoît Jacquot’s acclaimed film of Puccini’s opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role with Roberto Alagna and Ruggero Raimondi.

Die Walküre - The Valkyrie - is the second opera in Wagner’s four-part epic, the Ring Cycle.

Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold - an epic of gods and monsters - brought to the 21st century at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

The final part of the tetralogy sees yet another broadening of the horizon.

Siegfried presents an encounter not only between man and woman but between two principles

Götterdämmerung presents the final and apocalyptic duel between the queens Brünnhilde and Kriemhild as narrated in the epic “Song of the Nibelung."

Two young people’s search for self-identity and their meeting at the end of this opera are the hopeful elements in the story moves towards disaster.

OperaGlass Works films their production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, conducted by John Wilson.

In Die Walküre the powerful ring continues to be the source of conflict, dictating the fate of those who desire it and those who fear it.

Lee Reynolds conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in an innovative new production of Ravel’s opera, L’enfant et les sortilèges.

Experience Verdi’s La Traviata, the inspiration behind Moulin Rouge, lovingly staged at London’s Royal Opera House.

When the European youth chooses War above Love, Cupid decides to seek out new followers on other continents.

Laurent Pelly's expression of Berlioz's adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique becomes ''an elegant treatise on love and music".

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the best-known operas worldwide. The ROH stages this alluring Japanese tragedy, reminding us why it’s a favorite.

The world premiere recording of Brett Dean's new opera based on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy.

The ‘sheer visual sophistication’ of Annabel Arden’s Barbiere serves ‘a triumphant celebration of Rossini’s musical genius

A modern opera adaptation by Charles Wuorinen based on Annie Proulx’s short story.

Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable tale.

Deborah Warner’s beautiful and evocative production of Britten’s final operatic masterpiece.

Witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, a deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another

The stout Sir John Falstaff has financial problems, which he attempts to solve by having affairs with two very wealthy, very married women.

Peter Konwitschny achieved a resounding success and Marlis Petersen a sensational debut in the title role with this new production of La Traviata

In the third part of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Siegfried follows the rise of a young hero, the illegitimate son of the twins from Die Walküre

Ketevan Kemoklidze leads as Rosina while the orchestra plays under the magical baton of the young principal guest conductor Andrea Battistoni.

This production from the historic Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova stars power couple Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, as lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi.

The second part of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Die Walküre, takes us on a theatrical voyage into a world that is in a never- ending state of war.

Twilight of the Gods, the Ring Cycle's conclusion, takes us to the children who have been left in the shadow of a power struggle between gods.

Staatsoper Hamburg and Vincent Boussard’s new staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly brings to life the moving tragedy of Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San

The legendary Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera.

Das Rhinegold is a theatrical journey that takes us back to our childhood, where fantasy becomes palpable reality.