Opera Movies

  • 1941
    Tosca

    Tosca

    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...

    Tosca
  • 1967
    Abesalom and Eteri

    Abesalom and Eteri

    Abesalom and Eteri

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    Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his palace as his fiancé. The Prince’s...

    Abesalom and Eteri
  • 2019
    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017)

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017)

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017)

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    This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast...

    Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017)
  • 2010
    I Promessi Sposi - Opera Moderna

    I Promessi Sposi - Opera Moderna

    I Promessi Sposi - Opera Moderna

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    I Promessi Sposi - Opera Moderna
  • 2017
    Sarah Plays a Werewolf

    Sarah Plays a Werewolf

    Sarah Plays a Werewolf

    6.52017HD

    17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost...

    Sarah Plays a Werewolf
  • 1946
    Willie the Operatic Whale

    Willie the Operatic Whale

    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...

    Willie the Operatic Whale
  • 1955
    Amahl and the Night Visitors

    Amahl and the Night Visitors

    Amahl and the Night Visitors

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    A destitute, crippled child and his mother are visited late one night by three traveling strangers who claim to be following a star so that they may...

    Amahl and the Night Visitors
  • 1975
    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

    Moses and Aaron

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    A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate...

    Moses and Aaron
  • 1987
    The Rape of Lucretia

    The Rape of Lucretia

    The Rape of Lucretia

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    With ancient Rome as a backdrop, composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera chronicles the undoing of the virginal Lucretia at the hands of...

    The Rape of Lucretia
  • 1957
    Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri

    Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri

    Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri

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    In 1810, Mustafà, Bey of Algiers and thoroughly fed up with his wife, the docile Elvira, orders the captain of the corsairs to find him one of...

    Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri
  • 2017
    Rodelinda

    Rodelinda

    Rodelinda

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    Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy Crowe and Bejun Mehta as Rodelinda and...

    Rodelinda
  • 1984
    Tosca's Kiss

    Tosca's Kiss

    Tosca's Kiss

    7.21984HD

    Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers,...

    Tosca's Kiss
  • 2017
    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    8.52017HD

    Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English:...

    Wagner: Die Walküre
  • 1956
    Bastien a Bastienna

    Bastien a Bastienna

    Bastien a Bastienna

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    Bastien a Bastienna
  • 2020
    Leoš Janáček: Osud

    Leoš Janáček: Osud

    Leoš Janáček: Osud

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    Leoš Janáček: Osud
  • 2026
    Opera Omnia

    Opera Omnia

    Opera Omnia

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    It unfurls a dreamlike atmosphere carried by the haunting melodies and evocative soundscapes of the Space Afrika duo. Inspired by Dante...

    Opera Omnia
  • 1995
    United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert

    United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert

    United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert

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    The World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, performs pieces by Rossini, Bartók, and Beethoven in Victoria Hall, Geneva in...

    United Nations 50th Anniversary Concert
  • 2006
    Così fan tutte

    Così fan tutte

    Così fan tutte

    7.52006HD

    Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks COSI FAN TUTTE as one of the great works of art...

    Così fan tutte
  • 2004
    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    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.

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
  • 1988
    Il Trovatore

    Il Trovatore

    Il Trovatore

    7.51988HD

    Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour,...

    Il Trovatore