Opera Movies
- 1983
Carmen
Carmen01983HD
Spain 1820. It's meal time at the cigar factory. Carmen spends her break in the square. Close by is Don José cleaning his weapons.
- 2016
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia02016HD
The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score...
- 1976
Tosca
Tosca81976HD
Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. The shining exception is Puccini's...
- 2017
Il club dei 27
Il club dei 2702017HD
A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.
- 2013
Death in Venice
Death in Venice02013HD
At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.
- 2003
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz: Les Troyens102003HD
This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of...
- 2010
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 201002010HD
Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back...
- 2012
Ariadne Auf Naxos
Ariadne Auf Naxos02012HD
Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the...
- 1978
Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle
Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle81978HD
TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencing boundless sensuality and...
- 2016
Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House
Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House02016HD
The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has borne two children by him. But Pollione’s...
- 2018
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice02018HD
Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice. His singing has the power to appease...
- 2014
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie62014HD
Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and interpreters of Baroque repertoire, not...
- 1948
Pagliacci
Pagliacci01948HD
Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia...
- 2010
Don Quichotte
Don Quichotte02010HD
This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the...
- 1958
Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)
Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)8.51958HD
The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to...
- 2009
Saint François d'Assise
Saint François d'Assise02009HD
Messiaen's breathtakingly intense opera on the life of St Francis of Assisi stars Rod Gilfry as the charismatic visionary, beguiled by the glory of...
- 2011
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia92011HD
A notorious femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son...
- 1975
Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!
Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!61975HD
A documentary behind the scenes of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.
- 2004
Berg: Lulu
Berg: Lulu62004HD
Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals. On the one hand,...
- 2014
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)82014HD
With their “comedy for music” in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his inspired librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most...