Movies: Opera

  • 1934
    One Night of Love

    One Night of Love (1934)

    One Night of Love

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    Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandi...

    One Night of Love
  • 2016
    Thomas: Hamlet

    Thomas: Hamlet (2016)

    Thomas: Hamlet

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    The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder of his father, Hamlet opposes the marriage of his mother and his uncle, at the expense of his beloved and h...

    Thomas: Hamlet
  • 1969
    Elektra

    Elektra (1969)

    Elektra

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    In the spring of 2024, the Berliner Philharmoniker, under the direction of their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, presented a staged production of Richard Strauss’s thrilling and dark opera Elektra – the highlight of the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. ...

    Elektra
  • 1992
    La Fanciulla del West

    La Fanciulla del West (1992)

    La Fanciulla del West

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    Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the California Gold Rush. At the center of the action is the good-hearted bar owner Minnie, sung by Barbara Daniels, who takes a motherly interest...

    La Fanciulla del West
  • 1982
    Puccini: La bohème

    Puccini: La bohème (1982)

    Puccini: La bohème

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    "La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata...

    Puccini: La bohème
  • 2019
    Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

    Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2019)

    Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

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    Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian mysteries, heroic-comic opera? Die Zauberflöte is heard more often and has been more frequently performed, discussed, queried and interrogated than almost a...

    Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
  • 1962
    The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

    The Phantom of the Opera

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    A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge....

    The Phantom of the Opera
  • 1965
    La Bohème

    La Bohème (1965)

    La Bohème

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    In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone production of Puccini’s masterpiece at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Filmed in that legendary opera house in 196...

    La Bohème
  • 2011
    Britten: Billy Budd

    Britten: Billy Budd (2011)

    Britten: Billy Budd

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    Captain Vere, an old man, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and found wanting. Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th Century, Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' is a gripping reflection on good and evil, ...

    Britten: Billy Budd
  • 2018
    Berg: Wozzeck

    Berg: Wozzeck (2018)

    Berg: Wozzeck

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    Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century. Berg's uncompromising portrayal...

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

    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele) (2014)

    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 popular of all their works and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time. In the guise of a gossam...

    R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburger Festspiele)
  • 2017
    Bizet: Carmen

    Bizet: Carmen (2017)

    Bizet: Carmen

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    From the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Terme di Caracalla "Carmen" by Georges Bizet. Director Jesus Lopez-Cobos. Orchestra, Chorus and Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma....

    Bizet: Carmen
  • 2004
    The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw (2004)

    The Turn of the Screw

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    The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed....

    The Turn of the Screw
  • 2004
    Rigoletto

    Rigoletto (2004)

    Rigoletto

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    In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to his cynical and powerful master, an unscrupulous philanderer contrasted with his cruel and unforgiving fool. Rigoletto encourages and welcomes the Duke...

    Rigoletto
  • 1941
    Tosca

    Tosca (1941)

    Tosca

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    Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom....

    Tosca
  • 2005
    Gianni Schicchi

    Gianni Schicchi (2005)

    Gianni Schicchi

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    Alessandro Corbelli takes the title role in Annabel Arden's whirlwind production of Puccini's compact opera, in which the scheming Gianni Schicchi retrieves for himself the spoils of a disinherited family to pave the way for his daughter to marry her...

    Gianni Schicchi
  • 2001
    Rigoletto

    Rigoletto (2001)

    Rigoletto

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    Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a l...

    Rigoletto
  • 1938
    The Girl Downstairs

    The Girl Downstairs (1938)

    The Girl Downstairs

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    A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him....

    The Girl Downstairs
  • 2001
    Macbeth

    Macbeth (2001)

    Macbeth

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    This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy to vivid life, characterized by spine-tingling atmospherics and a triumphant debut by American baritone Thomas Hampson in ...

    Macbeth
  • 1988
    Eugene Onegin

    Eugene Onegin (1988)

    Eugene Onegin

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    A filmed version of Tchaikovsky's opera. Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believes Onegin is her fated love. She writes a note telling him so, but he rejects her. Years later he returns, finding her married, but now he...

    Eugene Onegin