Opera Movies

Classics on a Summer's Evening is an outdoor concert for an enormous audience which was staged in an architecturally striking public square in...

Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. The shining exception is Puccini's...

Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto in French by Jules Barbier (1825-1901), based on a...

A documentary film about singing and a young man in search of himself and his voice.

An opera musical with nuns and a priest trying to do their jobs.

Inspired by Beaumarchais' comedy, Rossini retains all the passion to create this bubbling opera buffa. A native of Venice, the cradle of the commedia...

While a roaring ball stirs up spirits inside, a boy and a girl meet on the sidelines – and fall in love at first sight. But because they belong...

Pious restraint comes face to face with sensuous hedonism in Camille Saint-Saëns’s grand-opera retelling of the Bible story of Samson and...

An actress (Nora) will leave everything in the play that seeks her return to acting. After a failure, she sees this role of hers as the opportunity...

With the “Méditation”, Jules Massenet probably wrote one of the most famous melodies of our time. It originates from his...

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger,...

Easter is a five story-arc opera about the coming-of-age of juking. The first of its tales aptly deals with contemporary civil unrest with foci on...

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is...

Opera di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano.

Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production...

The second part of the Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the shortened version, prepared by Cord Garben. Staged at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires,...