Opera Movies
- 2007
Callas Assoluta
Callas Assoluta6.52007HD
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in...
- 2006
Rigoletto
Rigoletto102006HD
Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for...
- 1956
On Such a Night
On Such a Night01956HD
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to...
- 2024
Brainland
Brainland02024HD
In 1935, renowned Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz visits psychiatrist Sobral Cid, trying to convince him to use his patients as subjects for an...
- 2017
Puccini: La Bohème
Puccini: La Bohème02017HD
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a...
- 2021
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence102021HD
The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Finland is the setting but the protagonists...
- 1976
Tosca
Tosca81976HD
Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. The shining exception is Puccini's...
- 1996
La Forza del Destino - The Met
La Forza del Destino - The Met01996HD
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Shakespearean proportions. Superstar...
- 2014
Bizet Carmen
Bizet Carmen02014HD
Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova...
- 1983
Cosi Fan Tutte
Cosi Fan Tutte01983HD
An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters. Bruscantini as Don Alfonso is past his prime,...
- 1992
The Ride to the Abyss
The Ride to the Abyss5.91992HD
‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by...
- 1947
This Time for Keeps
This Time for Keeps5.21947HD
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
- 1990
Академия детских наук. Музыка. Как сочинять оперы. Фильм 4
Академия детских наук. Музыка. Как сочинять оперы. Фильм 491990HD
- 2003
The Cunning Little Vixen
The Cunning Little Vixen6.52003HD
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life...
- 2022
Siegfried (Longborough Opera Festival 2022)
Siegfried (Longborough Opera Festival 2022)02022HD
The hero Siegfried reforges his father’s shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest prize of all – the love of the valkyrie...
- 2006
Mitridate Re Di Ponto
Mitridate Re Di Ponto02006HD
The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is truly visionary and other worldly and gives a...
- 1989
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Mozart: The Magic Flute01989HD
A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Intertwining music of awesome purity...
- 2015
Show Boat
Show Boat02015HD
Hammerstein and Kern’s Show Boat is a true classic of American musical theater - a tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s...
- 1992
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk31992HD
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life...
- 2006
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte7.52006HD
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...