The great soprano Birgit Nilsson stars in her signature role of Isolde in this historic performance filmed live at the Theatre Antique d'Orange in France in 1973. Jon Vickers co-stars as Tristan in this famed production, which is performed under the musical direction of the legendary conductor Karl Böhm. This historic film of Wagner's monumental opera, performed by this incomparable cast, has been restored and digitally re-mastered.

Tatiana falls in love with Onegin who urges her to forget him. Onegin kills a man in a duel and travels abroad. Six years later he meets Tatiana again, but she is married.

"Donizetti's fiftieth opera, Marino Faliero, was first performed in Paris on 12, March, 1835 with a cast comprising four of the finest singers of the period before premiering in London a few weeks later. Marino Faliero subsequently enjoyed a long and successful run of international performances thoughout the 19th century before disappearing from the stage until its modern revival in 1966. Set in Venice in 1355, it remains a major work of Italian Romanticism,...

"In a feud between the Scottish families of Ravenswood and Lammermoor, Enrico has gained the upper hand over Edgardo, murdering his kinsmen and usurping his estates. By the time of the opera's action, in the late 17th century, Enrico's fortunes have begun to wane; in political disfavor, he stakes all on uniting his family with that of Arturo, whom he means to force his sister, Lucia, to marry."--Container.

Large-nosed poet Cyrano is unable to face his beloved Roxanne, so he feeds his beautiful verse to her through the handsome, but poetically inept, Christian.

Recorded at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and features Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazon, Samuel Ramey, and the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with Victor Pablo Perez conducting.

Set before and during the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier is an idealistic poet, caught in the political violence, and Maddalena is the woman he loves.