A film adaption of the opera starring Hong Yong-hee was made in 1972.

When the San Carlo opera house opened its season with a new opera, "Eleonora," starring Vanessa Redgrave as a heroine and martyr of the 1799 Neapolitan uprising, it unleashed angry demonstrations and debate rivaling the intensity of President Clinton's impeachment trial.

After the opera, Meyerbeer's "L'Africaine," starring Placido Domingo and Shirley Verrett, the 500 guests trooped back to the tent for supper, where they heard from Mayor Art Agnos, an honorary chairman of the ball.

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers.

Reissues of several operas starring the famed soprano: Catalani's "Wally" and Puccini's "Boheme" and "Madama Butterfly."

Meanwhile, this week saw the release of a new DVD of the same opera starring Roberto Alagna (DGG).

It's true that the movie, "Red Tails," is a biopic about the Tuskegee Airmen rather than a space opera starring the Skywalker clan.

The first hit production at the theatre was the record-breaking comic opera, Dorothy, starring Marie Tempest, which was so successful that its authors used the profits to build the Lyric Theatre, where it moved in 1888.

Performance of Menotti s opera The Medium starring S. Gustafson (Monica), J. Loo (Madame Flora/Baba), A. Stock...