Movies: Opera

  • 1962
    Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

    Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964 (1962)

    Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964

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    Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1964 celebrate her triumphant return to the Covent Garden stage. Repertoire from these performances include Verdi: Tu che le vanità (Don Carlo), Bizet:...

    Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
  • 2009
    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola (2009)

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

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    "Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As close to pure joy as you will find in a big-time opera house" (New Yorker), conquering audiences and cr...

    Rossini: La Cenerentola
  • 1984
    Strangler vs Strangler

    Strangler vs Strangler (1984)

    Strangler vs Strangler

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    When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathicall...

    Strangler vs Strangler
  • 1950
    Rabbit of Seville

    Rabbit of Seville (1950)

    Rabbit of Seville

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    Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him ...

    Rabbit of Seville
  • 1992
    The Ghosts of Versailles

    The Ghosts of Versailles (1992)

    The Ghosts of Versailles

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    What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Bea...

    The Ghosts of Versailles
  • 2010
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold (2010)

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

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    Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology wit...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 1967
    Bizet Carmen

    Bizet Carmen (1967)

    Bizet Carmen

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    This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exp...

    Bizet Carmen
  • 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
  • 2018
    Celeste

    Celeste (2018)

    Celeste

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    Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident,...

    Celeste
  • 1985
    Die Nacht aus Blei

    Die Nacht aus Blei (1985)

    Die Nacht aus Blei

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    A surreal movie by peter Weigl starring Michael Biehn and Lubomir Kafka....

    Die Nacht aus Blei
  • 2015
    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders (2015)

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders

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    Go inside the building that has been the source of some of the greatest moments in music, ballet and opera....

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders
  • 2016
    Glyndebourne Live: Il barbiere di Siviglia

    Glyndebourne Live: Il barbiere di Siviglia (2016)

    Glyndebourne Live: Il barbiere di Siviglia

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    Figaro uses every trick he can muster to outwit Dr Bartolo and ensure his master wins his chosen bride. He meets his match in the would-be-bride Rosina, who has schemes of her own. Glyndebourne favourite Danielle de Niese adds the crafty Rosina to h...

    Glyndebourne Live: Il barbiere di Siviglia
  • 1946
    Willie the Operatic Whale

    Willie the Operatic Whale (1946)

    Willie the Operatic Whale

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    The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in several voices simultaneously. A friend of his, a gull called Whi...

    Willie the Operatic Whale
  • 1958
    Diary of a Pregnant Woman

    Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)

    Diary of a Pregnant Woman

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    Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman....

    Diary of a Pregnant Woman
  • 1948
    Back Alley Oproar

    Back Alley Oproar (1948)

    Back Alley Oproar

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    Sylvester sings opera and popular tunes while standing on a back alley fence; Elmer, who wants to sleep, tries to thwart him....

    Back Alley Oproar
  • 1988
    La Boheme

    La Boheme (1988)

    La Boheme

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    Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of you...

    La Boheme
  • 1953
    Aida

    Aida (1953)

    Aida

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    This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals....

    Aida
  • 1938
    The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

    The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)

    The Life of Giuseppe Verdi

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    The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox....

    The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
  • 1969
    La hija de Rappaccini

    La hija de Rappaccini (1969)

    La hija de Rappaccini

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    La hija de Rappaccini
  • 1989
    Boris Godounov

    Boris Godounov (1989)

    Boris Godounov

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    A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death....

    Boris Godounov