Opera Movies
- 1988
La Cenerentola
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Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival with Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza as...
- 1983
Il Trittico
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Teatro Alla Scala 1983 production of three one-act operas from Puccini.
- 2000
Tannhäuser
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A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo. The original title,...
- 1997
Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
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The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival. Director...
- 1997
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
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Taped live at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev conducts this landmark production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece....
- 1989
Mozart: The Magic Flute
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A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Intertwining music of awesome purity...
- 1988
Lehár: The Merry Widow
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Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political and amorous intrigue amidst the gaiety of Parisian...
- 2000
Verdi: Nabucco
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera performed in 1998.
- 1986
La Fille du Régiment
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Australian Opera Chorus and Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra production of Donizetti's opera
- 1985
Werther
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Jules Massanet's lyrical opera is transformed into a superb film production by Petr Weigl, shot on location in Prague, with music conducted by Libor...
- 1955
The Great Waltz
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Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when...
- 1989
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
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The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century in the city of Nagasaki, about a young Japanese...
- 2004
Phantom
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Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
- 2004
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
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This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
- 1948
First Opera Film Festival
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An anthology of four abbreviated operas: "William Tell" by Rossini, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart, "Don Pasquale" by Donizetti, and "Carmen" by...
- 1966
Billy Budd
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A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
- 1965
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
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When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....
- 2003
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
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Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a...
- 2003
An Index of Metals
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Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total...
- 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...