Opera Movies
- 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...
- 2017
Rodelinda
Rodelinda02017HD
Claus Guth's exciting 2017 staging of Handel’s "Rodelinda" at Madrid’s Teatro Real, featuring Lucy Crowe and Bejun Mehta as Rodelinda and...
- 1947
This Time for Keeps
This Time for Keeps5.21947HD
An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.
- 1953
Aida
Aida4.91953HD
This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.
- 1987
William Tell
William Tell01987HD
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid)...
- 2001
Otello
Otello02001HD
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...
- 1951
The Medium
The Medium4.71951HD
Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances...
- 2010
Hunter's Bride
Hunter's Bride62010HD
Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...
- 1986
Rusalka
Rusalka01986HD
- 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...
- 2008
Marco Polo (An Opera Within an Opera)
Marco Polo (An Opera Within an Opera)02008HD
Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and physical discovery, a voyage depicting spiritual...
- 1936
Let's Sing Again
Let's Sing Again3.21936HD
An orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York.
- 2019
Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Korngold: Die tote Stadt02019HD
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed by Simon Stone. Kirill Petrenko is conducting...
- 1973
Otello
Otello01973HD
Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. As the tragic Moor of...
- 1960
The Phantom of the Operetta
The Phantom of the Operetta6.51960HD
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude...
- 1944
Carmen
Carmen81944HD
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a...
- 1965
La Bohème
La Bohème81965HD
In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone...
- 2005
The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow02005HD
Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta...
- 2017
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)02017HD
A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not...
- 1936
The Gay Desperado
The Gay Desperado2.81936HD
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to...