Movies about “opera”
39 movies tagged “opera”.
Marguerite 2015
The Turn of the Screw 2011
Overview: The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.
Birth 2004
Overview: It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of …
Silentium 2004
Overview: A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner kee…
Der Rosenkavalier 2004
Overview: This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg. It stars Adrianne Pieczonka…
Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon 2003
Overview: Live from La Scala Wednesday 10 December 2003
Berlioz: Les Troyens 2003
Overview: This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but …
Les Boréades 2003
Overview: Director Robert Carsen and his creative team flood the stage with summer blossoms, drifts of autumn leaves, winter snows and thunderous spring storms. The cast of 140 are attired i…
A 78-as szent Johannája 2003
Overview: Jeanne's beautiful breasts spill out from her torn clothes, and her gouged internal organs lie beneath. The contrast between death and eroticism is captured in a profound image. Th…
L'Upupa & Der Triumph der Sohnesliebe 2003
Overview: This production of Hans Werner Henze's opera Upupa & Der Triumph der Sohnesliebe features Laura Aiken, John Mark Ainsley, and Alfred Muff in lead roles. Markus Stenz conducts the W…
Das Rheingold 2003
Overview: Eve of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Joachim Schlömer (Stuttgart State Opera 1999, recorded live at the end of 2002).
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus 2003
Overview: 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 Russian prince, that brings togeth…
The Ride to the Abyss 2003
Overview: ‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.
The Cunning Little Vixen 2003
Overview: An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life of Sharp-Ears, a fox who is ca…
The Death of Klinghoffer 2003
Overview: An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterran…
The Magic Flute 2003
Overview: The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical …
Siegfried 2003
Overview: Part of Stuttgart Ring Cycle 2002/2003 - Second day.
Don't Cry 2003
Overview: The story of a Chinese-trained opera singer living in a remote Kazakh village with her grandmother and her ailing young niece. The bulk of the action consists of the steadfast hero…
Fidelio 2002
Overview: Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned …
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 2002
Overview: A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
the 4th tenor 2002
Overview: A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin 2002
Overview: 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…
Callas Forever 2002
Overview: Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."
The Secret Lives of Dentists 2002
Overview: An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Turandot 2002
Overview: Valery Gergiev leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in this production of Puccini's opera, recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2002. David Pountney's production featur…
The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland 2002
Overview: Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production directed by Humphrey Burton for Le…
Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo 2002
Overview: Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual delight and a musically satisfying representation of Monteverdi's opera
La Traviata 2002
Overview: Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta,…
Maria Stuarda 2002
Overview: Maria Stuarda is a searingly dramatic setting of Friedrich Schiller’s play about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her political and personal rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I of England. Whi…
Nabucco 2002
Overview: Nabucco - live from Metropolitan Opera, June 2002. On its surface, Nabucco is about the epic struggle of Zaccaria and the Jews suppressed by Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar and his v…
Otello 2001
Overview: This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanced age, he is still in excellent form, both vocally and in terms of stage presen…
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House) 2001
Overview: Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for television and video by Brian Large.
Rigoletto 2001
Overview: 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 …
Norma 2001
Overview: Gaul has been conquered by the Romans. Oroveso, the Arch-Druid longs to lead a Gallic rebellion against the colonial forces. He and all the others wait for the signal to be given b…
Tristan und Isolde 2001
Overview: Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman…
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