One of the best-loved operas of all time, Puccini's tale of a passionate woman caught in a web of corruption, lust, and betrayal has been thrilling audiences since its premiere. This compelling heroine navigates a twisted path through the beautiful and dangerous world of 19th-century Rome.
Love From Afar is a haunting and vivid musical creation that has become one of the most performed 21st-century operas. Weary of his current life and anxious to explore love's frontiers, a medieval troubadour from France hears of a beautiful woman living in Tripoli. A pilgrim carries messages of yearning between the lovers, until the troubadour finally journeys to meet his distant desire, putting reality and fantasy to the test.
One of the paramount examples of the choreographic art of the 19th-century, Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty has never lost its ability to move and enthrall audiences. Rarely, if ever, have music - in this case by Tchaikovsky - and dance been so perfectly and seamlessly integrated in the service of narrative than in this unmatched blend of spectacle and artistry. Each musical phrase and every step of dancing feels conceived in precise relation to the whole, resulting in a work of astonishing formal unity.
Based upon the fantastical tales of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, Offenbach's operatic swansong boasts such hit numbers as the clockwork-driven 'Doll's Song' and the seductively swooning 'Barcarolle'. A drunken poet sits at a bar, recalling his lost loves to his fellow drinkers. But this is no ordinary barfly: Hoffmann is a writer of fantastical fables. As he spins his dark reminiscences, they come to life before us and resonate with a universal truth. Hoffmann embodies the archetype of every tortured artist, torn between his search for love and the demands of his creative muse.
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, a Florentine Tragedy is about a merchant who discovers his wife is having an affair with the Prince of Florence. A cat and mouse game ends with a brutal kill and a stunning twist, set to Zemlinsky's ravishing late romantic score.
Love affairs between gods and mortals seldom end well, as our heroine discovers. Semele, a princess and mistress of the god Jupiter, wishes for her lover to grant her immortality, but Semele's ambition and vanity ultimately lead to her undoing.
A shakespearean classic told through the medium of dance in a striking ballet directed by American-born choreographer Kevin O'Day.
Certain stories carry on from generation to generation and earn the designation "timeless" for good reason. Beauty and the Beast is one such story.
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