The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot 2022 ( 7)

Giacomo Puccini’s final operatic masterpiece, Turandot, is one of the repertory’s most extravagant spectacles. And in the Met’s production, by legendary director Franco Zeffirelli, this tale of an icy Chinese princess and the mysterious prince vying to win her love takes on larger-than-life proportions. This performance, recorded as part of the company’s series of Live in HD cinema transmissions, stars Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska in the formidable title role, going head-to-head with tenor Yonghoon Lee as Prince Calàf, who must correctly answer Turandot’s three riddles or forfeit his head. Maestro Marco Armiliato, a veteran of nearly 500 Met performances, takes the podium to lead a stunning cast, which also features soprano Ermonela Jaho as the self-sacrificing Liù and bass-baritone Ferruccio Furlanetto as Calàf’s father, the blind king Timur.

Royal Opera House: Turandot 2023 ( 5)

In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers correctly, suddenly he holds all the power – and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer all?

The Met — Il Trovatore 2015 ( 8)

Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Count di Luna, Yonghoon Lee is Manrico in his Met role debut as the title character, Dolora Zajick sings her signature role of the gypsy Azucena, and Štefan Kocán is Ferrando. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production.

Some Day 2017 ( 5)

A web drama about the all-too-relatable woes and wonders of love - unrequited, forbidden, and otherwise.

Neuru 2018

Drawing Paper 2007

Set in a vocational girls’ high school, this coming-of-age film interweaves the themes of friendships between schoolgirls, their lives, and their strong determination to hold onto their dreams in spite of the harsh realities, all set to the beautiful melody. Sang-won has the dream of being a professional singer as she sings in her high school band “Magnolia.” The band members from various backgrounds, who have different dreams of their own, experience changes in their 3rd year of the high school: love triangles, family matters, and leaving band to follow other dreams, etc.

Lashes Hair 2002

A man sees a little girl in his dream and he becomes sure she is his mother. But he never saw her face before...