Opera Movies

  • 2012
    Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso

    Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso

    Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso

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    Documentary about filmmaker, author, director, and performance artist Christoph Schlingensief and his last major project, building an opera village...

    Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and his Opera Village in Burkina Faso
  • 1978
    The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

    The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

    The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni

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    Imbuing the familiar Don Juan myth with a captivating combination of comedy, seductiveness, danger, and damnation, Mozart created an enduring...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
  • 2009
    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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    At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the...

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  • 2011
    La Bohème (Sydney Opera House)

    La Bohème (Sydney Opera House)

    La Bohème (Sydney Opera House)

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    La Bohème (Sydney Opera House)
  • 1977
    Curse of the Black Cat

    Curse of the Black Cat

    Curse of the Black Cat

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    A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously...

    Curse of the Black Cat
  • 1982
    The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw

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    Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is...

    The Turn of the Screw
  • 2021
    Falling for Figaro

    Falling for Figaro

    Falling for Figaro

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    A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the...

    Falling for Figaro
  • 1957
    Il Trovatore

    Il Trovatore

    Il Trovatore

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    Features: Mario Del Monaco Leyla Gencer Ettore Bastianini Fedora Barbieri Laura Londi Plinio Clabassi Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano dell RAI...

    Il Trovatore
  • 2005
    Verdi La Traviata

    Verdi La Traviata

    Verdi La Traviata

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    This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welser-Möst has many things to recommend it...

    Verdi La Traviata
  • 2018
    The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid

    The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid

    The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid

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    Spectacular! Opera in three acts. Filmed at a series of outstanding performances at the Teatro Real de Madrid in December 2016, this recording will...

    The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid
  • 1993
    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

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    The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring...

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal
  • 2013
    Le comte Ory

    Le comte Ory

    Le comte Ory

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    Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-language comedy opera described by the...

    Le comte Ory
  • 2010
    Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)

    Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)

    Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)

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    A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival's lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Rizzi conducting the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and...

    Verdi: Aida (Bregenz Festival)
  • 2003
    Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice

    Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice

    Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice

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    Since her thrilling, 1995 debut at the San Francisco Opera, soprano Anna Netrebko has starred with opera companies and orchestras worldwide. This...

    Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice
  • 2015
    Donizetti La Favorite

    Donizetti La Favorite

    Donizetti La Favorite

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    One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Gaetano Donizetti's La favorita in it's original French form; a tale of love and war that...

    Donizetti La Favorite
  • 2002
    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

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    Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared...

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel
  • 1983
    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

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    La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's penultimate opera is based on a play by David Belasco set at the height of the notorious California gold rush. The...

    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
  • 2018
    Royal Opera House: Swan Lake

    Royal Opera House: Swan Lake

    Royal Opera House: Swan Lake

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    The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring Marianela Nunez as Odette/Odile and Vadim...

    Royal Opera House: Swan Lake
  • 2014
    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

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    Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent...

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung
  • 1986
    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters

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    Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her...

    Hannah and Her Sisters