Opera Movies

  • 1983
    Carmen

    Carmen

    Carmen

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    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.

    Carmen
  • 2016
    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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    The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score...

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
  • 1976
    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tosca

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    Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. The shining exception is Puccini's...

    Tosca
  • 2017
    Il club dei 27

    Il club dei 27

    Il club dei 27

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    A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

    Il club dei 27
  • 2013
    Death in Venice

    Death in Venice

    Death in Venice

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    At the English National Opera, Deborah Warner has been directing Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, conducted by Edward Gardner.

    Death in Venice
  • 2003
    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

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    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...

    Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • 2010
    Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010

    Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010

    Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010

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    Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back...

    Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010
  • 2012
    Ariadne Auf Naxos

    Ariadne Auf Naxos

    Ariadne Auf Naxos

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    Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the...

    Ariadne Auf Naxos
  • 1978
    Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle

    Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle

    Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle

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    TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencing boundless sensuality and...

    Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle
  • 2016
    Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House

    Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House

    Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House

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    The priestess Norma loves Pollione, leader of the occupying force suppressing her people, and has borne two children by him. But Pollione’s...

    Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House
  • 2018
    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

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    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...

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  • 2014
    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

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    Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and interpreters of Baroque repertoire, not...

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
  • 1948
    Pagliacci

    Pagliacci

    Pagliacci

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    Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia...

    Pagliacci
  • 2010
    Don Quichotte

    Don Quichotte

    Don Quichotte

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    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...

    Don Quichotte
  • 1958
    Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)

    Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)

    Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)

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    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...

    Maria Callas: Toujours (Paris 1958)
  • 2009
    Saint François d'Assise

    Saint François d'Assise

    Saint François d'Assise

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    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...

    Saint François d'Assise
  • 2011
    Lucrezia Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia

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    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...

    Lucrezia Borgia
  • 1975
    Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!

    Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!

    Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!

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    A documentary behind the scenes of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

    Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!
  • 2004
    Berg: Lulu

    Berg: Lulu

    Berg: Lulu

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    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,...

    Berg: Lulu
  • 2014
    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)

    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)

    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)

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    With their “comedy for music” in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his inspired librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most...

    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)