Verdi’s Macbeth follows a couple’s slide into ambition, blood and madness, with a score that darkens as their guilt deepens. A chilling chorus of witches, a stained white dress and singing full of heartbreak make this a tale of power and conscience that still feels uncomfortably current.
Twenty years ago, the Metropolitan Opera made a risky bet that live opera could travel to a cinema screen without losing its power. This anniversary reel, spanning two decades of the Met's greatest broadcast moments, makes the case that the gamble paid off, and reminds us what it means for world-class opera to become genuinely accessible.
Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is a genuinely rare thing: a contemporary opera that is as visually ravishing as it is emotionally profound. It brings Frida Kahlo back from the underworld for one final reckoning with love, pain, and the enduring power of art.
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is one of the most extraordinary works in the history of Western music, and experiencing it on the big screen is something close to a revelation. This is a review for anyone who has ever wondered whether opera might be for them, and for anyone who already knows it is.
