Achille Majeroni

The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto…

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build …

Musica in piazza

La damigella di Bard

The Turin noblewoman Maria Clotilde di Bard, the sole and elderly heir to an ancient Savoyard title,…

L'eredità dello zio buonanima

Casta diva

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vin…

La Wally

Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountai…

Caino

The singer Cécile Hervey celebrates great achievements, while her sister Elda lives quietly with her…

For Napoleon and France

Two siblings lose their parents amidst turmoil in revolutionary France and are adopted by a peasant …