Venus has promised Paris that he can have the most beautiful woman in the world: Hélène. Unfortunately, however, she is married. After much subterfuge, Paris succeeds in seducing Helen. Their affair is discovered by Menelaus, her husband, and they flee together.

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

A filmed performance of the January 2016 world premiere production of Toshio Hosokawa's opera dedicated to the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.