Gabriela Beňačková

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...

Mefistofele

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

The Divine Emma

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages w...

Faust

In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an ete...

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whol...

Andrea Chenier

Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena than the one...

Zuzana Vojířová

Miller’s daughter Zuzanka Vojířová, betrothed to Ondřej Zachar, hesitates before marriage when Lord Peter Vok o...

Rusalka

Three arias from Antonín Dvořák´s fairytale opera Rusalka turned in to a movie, sung by Gabriela Beňačková (Rus...

The Bartered Bride

Frantisek Filip film version of the Smetana opera.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten

Arabella

2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, op...

Země úsměvů

Krútňava

Paleta lásky

The years of Mánes' studies at art schools and on the period when the mature and distinctive artist was already...

Prodaná nevěsta

Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušina’s plan to...

Pražský výběr – Symphony Bizarre

Artistic rendering of a major concert by Pražský výběr at the O2 Arena with the Czech National Symphony Orchest...

L. van Beethoven Symfonie d moll

Bedřich Smetana: Libuše

Fidelio

Beethoven's opera Fidelio.

Peter Dvorský