Movies: Opera

  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

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    This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, w...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
  • 2016
    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2016)

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

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    Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love. However, just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are the progeny of t...

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  • 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
  • 2015
    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015)

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

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    Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her...

    Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly (2024)

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly

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    Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return....

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly
  • 2011
    MacBeth

    MacBeth (2011)

    MacBeth

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    Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself....

    MacBeth
  • 2008
    Salomé

    Salomé (2008)

    Salomé

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    David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has...

    Salomé
  • 1996
    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1996)

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

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    A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first ...

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude
  • 2008
    1984

    1984 (2008)

    1984

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    Inspired by one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, composer Lorin Maazel evokes Orwell's totalitarian nightmare, where "Big Brother" is always watching, and those guilty of "thoughtcrime" are condemned to face their worst fears in the infamo...

    1984
  • 1935
    The Right to Live

    The Right to Live (1935)

    The Right to Live

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    A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother....

    The Right to Live
  • 2013
    Cenerentola - Una favola in diretta

    Cenerentola - Una favola in diretta (2013)

    Cenerentola - Una favola in diretta

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    Cenerentola - Una favola in diretta
  • 2018
    Swan Lake

    Swan Lake (2018)

    Swan Lake

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    The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring Marianela Nunez as Odette/Odile and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Siegfried....

    Swan Lake
  • 2025
    Song of the Hands

    Song of the Hands (2025)

    Song of the Hands

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    This film takes you through the inspiring journey of Venezuela's Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir) while exploring their daily struggles and lives. Established in 1995 as part of Venezuela's El Sistema program, the White Hands Choir provides ...

    Song of the Hands
  • 1999
    Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle

    Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999)

    Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle

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    With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time and months of rehearsal, Wagner's "Ring Cycle" is a daunting undertaking for any opera company. Jon Else goes backstage to show this rare event entirely from the point of view of union stagehands at t...

    Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
  • 1935
    I Dream Too Much

    I Dream Too Much (1935)

    I Dream Too Much

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    Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonat...

    I Dream Too Much
  • 2018
    Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata

    Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata (2018)

    Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata

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    In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awaits her client, her expression proud, her demeanour assured. Is this Violetta? Like Olympia, Verdi’s ...

    Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata
  • 2013
    Capriccio

    Capriccio (2013)

    Capriccio

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    Richard Strauss' last stage work is an opera about opera as an art form, depicting the creation of a music drama in a wise and witty way. Which came first the words or the music? That is the question Strauss and his librettist Clemens Krauss address ...

    Capriccio
  • 1949
    Long-Haired Hare

    Long-Haired Hare (1949)

    Long-Haired Hare

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    Bugs Bunny vs. a famous opera singer at the Hollywood Bowl....

    Long-Haired Hare
  • 1947
    This Time for Keeps

    This Time for Keeps (1947)

    This Time for Keeps

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    An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty....

    This Time for Keeps
  • 2000
    Falstaff

    Falstaff (2000)

    Falstaff

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    The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is reflected...

    Falstaff