Death in Venice

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Richard Wagner's Parsifal, staged at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2020, opened the opera season on January 26. The production, directed by Graham...

Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer's first mature opera buffa. Hilarity mingles...

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's...

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's Faust

A film of the opera The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten. A young governess arrives at an old house in the country to look after two orphans....

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their...

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final...

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an...