Opera and film have been uneasy partners for a century or more. With the growing possibilities and soaring popularity of home video technology, the relation of the two art forms seems, if anything, ...

WITH THE San Francisco Opera’s new general director announcing his future plans this week, I suggest we celebrate by watching opera DVDs in something we haven’t been used to lately: smart (not ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera is getting back into the DVD business. Five of the Met’s eight live high-definition movie-theater broadcasts next season will be released on DVD by EMI Classics, the ...

The world of opera never ceases to fascinate: a riveting performance here, a thought provoking new production there; a legendary singer still recording new roles, a soon-to-be-legend in a new one.

I despise opera singing, and I detest chick-flicks. But I love phantomly films and am a fan of The Phantom of the Opera — from the eerie 1925 silent version starring Lon Chaney to the bloody slasher ...

West End impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber talked director Joel Schumacher into a "frankly obnoxious" movie version of The Phantom Of The Opera. Gerard Butler stars as the disfigured musical genius ...