Two Sisters from Boston

Strictly Dishonorable

July 1951 •English

A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.

Shower

September 1999 •Chinese

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.

Farinelli

December 1994 •French

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

José Cura a Slovenská filharmónia

December 2022 •Slovak

The Firebird

August 1952 •English

Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.

Hit the Hay

November 1945 •English

An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.

When a Man Comes Home

September 2007 •Danish

A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town´s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone´s high expectations and the opera singer´s triumphant return.

Everybody Does It

October 1949 •English

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.

Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions - Skylight One Hanson, 2011

August 2011 •English

A 120-participant tableau vivant by Sarah Small.

A Bedroom Fantasy

January 1953 •English

Lili St. Cyr is about ready for bedtime, which of course she does in the nude. Live stage performance includes chorus girl act, The Folliettes, and the dance team The Duponts.

Too Hot to Handle

December 1950 •English

This is an entire burlesque show, complete with a live band. Five strippers strut their stuff in between bawdy songs and sexy jokes delivered by burlesque singers and comedians.

Love Moods

January 1952 •English

Reclining on her chaise lounge in a see-through robe, Lili St. Cyr decides she needs a bubble bath. In a gilded tub fit for Marie Antoinette, she bares all that the law will allow. Then she squeezes into an evening gown and mink coat to paint the town red.

Thrill of a Romance

May 1945 •English

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

Ladies of the Chorus

December 1948 •English

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.

Lady of Burlesque

May 1943 •English

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Tomb Itmay Concern

December 1950 •English

An archaeologist and his assistant discover two female mummies in an Egyptian tomb with a warning in hieroglyphics not to wet them with the water in an urn. When they do, one mummy gets up to hi-jinks, while the other, Princess Itmay, does a burlesque dance.

A Bloody Aria

May 2006 •Korean

A student and her teacher go to a secluded area in the middle of nowhere to practice open-air singing. There they run into a gang of local thugs who initially seem friendly but slowly reveal their sinister side.

Grounds for Marriage

January 1951 •English

Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.

The Toast of New Orleans

August 1950 •English

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.

San Francisco

June 1936 •English

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.