Movies: Giacomo Puccini

  • 1983
    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1983)

    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 composer took three years to complete the work, which, for him, marked a new stylish departure. With m...

    Puccini's La Fanciulla del West
  • 2008
    Turandot

    Turandot (2008)

    Turandot

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    Internationally acclaimed Chinese film-maker Chen Kaige delivers an opulent staging of the fairy-tale story of Chinese Princess Turandot, who will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles. With sumptuous costumes and palace sets designed in...

    Turandot
  • 2011
    Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

    Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona (2011)

    Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

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    The Arena di Verona Festival honors Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli, and his legendary production of Turandot. Interpreted within the sumptuous surroundings of Verona Arena, this Puccini's masterpiece tells the story of a princess whose bea...

    Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème

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    With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers ...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
  • 1964
    Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II

    Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II (1964)

    Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II

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    At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna. Her “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House becomes a sensation. Maria Callas wants to show everyone once agai...

    Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
  • 2016
    Our Walls

    Our Walls (2016)

    Our Walls

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    The neighbourhood of Housewives. The district of Insomniacs. The newsstand of the Unknown Mother. The underground of The Lonely Women. Our walls pay tribute to the people we love....

    Our Walls
  • 1987
    Turandot

    Turandot (1987)

    Turandot

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    The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as Turandot, with Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as L'Impera...

    Turandot
  • 2025
    Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann

    Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann (2025)

    Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann

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    The Vienna State Opera celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Second Austrian Republic in the Burggarten gardens and offers a preview of the 2025–2026 season. The programme features the prestigious voices of Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann and Benjamin...

    Vienna Opera Gala With Elina Garança, Sonya Yoncheva, Benjamin Bernheim and Jonas Kaufmann
  • 2016
    Puccini: La Bohème

    Puccini: La Bohème (2016)

    Puccini: La Bohème

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    Puccini's masterpiece La Bohème is by far the most represented opera in the world. At the famous Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (2014), where Puccini composed his main operas, La Bohème is directed by one of Italy’s greatest film directors: Ettor...

    Puccini: La Bohème
  • 2005
    Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Torre del Lago)

    Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Torre del Lago) (2005)

    Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Torre del Lago)

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    The 51st Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago opened with a new production of an opera that is perhaps the composer‘s most underestimated work: “La Fanciulla del West” – often dismissed as a mere „western opera“. The musical director was Alberto Verone...

    Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Torre del Lago)
  • 2018
    Tosca - Teatru tal-Opra Aurora

    Tosca - Teatru tal-Opra Aurora (2018)

    Tosca - Teatru tal-Opra Aurora

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    Tosca returns to the Teatru tal-Opra Aurora in a completely new production, under the direction of the renowned Vivien Hewitt, following the recent successes of 2011 (Aurora's own production) and 2014 (a Gaulitanus chorus production). Attracting the ...

    Tosca - Teatru tal-Opra Aurora
  • 1938
    Honeysuckle

    Honeysuckle (1938)

    Honeysuckle

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    A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it....

    Honeysuckle
  • 2023
    Turandot

    Turandot (2023)

    Turandot

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    Production of the Teatro San Carlo, 2024. Turandot can be considered Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece, being his last and unfinished opera, which tells the story of the beautiful and cruel Chinese princess Turandot, who subjects her suitors to a test co...

    Turandot
  • 2011
    Puccini - Suor Angelica

    Puccini - Suor Angelica (2011)

    Puccini - Suor Angelica

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    Recorded at the Royal Opera House 2011...

    Puccini - Suor Angelica
  • 2022
    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (2022)

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico

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    Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his triptych – the grim tragedy Il tabarro, the lyrical and sensitive Suor Angelica, and the comedy Gianni Schicchi – premiered in New York. Three different...

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico
  • 2017
    The Opera House

    The Opera House (2017)

    The Opera House

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    In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an im...

    The Opera House
  • 2023
    Turandot

    Turandot (2023)

    Turandot

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    Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he prefers to see as a »parable«, into the grotesque. Guth sees Calaf, son of the fugitive Tartar king Timur, »thrown into a world that he cannot underst...

    Turandot
  • 2012
    Pappano's Essential Tosca

    Pappano's Essential Tosca (2012)

    Pappano's Essential Tosca

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    Antonio Pappano takes an in-depth look at one of the most famous and dramatic of all operas - Puccini's Tosca. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the recent production of Tosca by the Royal Opera House, conducted by Pappano and starring some...

    Pappano's Essential Tosca
  • 2018
    Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

    Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (2018)

    Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

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    Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence trick orchestrated by a falsifier willing to do anything to gain wealth. Including bringing back the dead!...

    Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
  • 2013
    Turandot

    Turandot (2013)

    Turandot

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    2013 revival of Andrei Serban's 1984 production. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, September 2013. Andrei Serban's spectacular and thrilling 1984 production of Puccini's final and grandest opera has long been a classic at the Royal Opera House...

    Turandot