Opera Movies
- 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...
- 1983
Tristan und Isolde
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Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a...
- 2013
Il Trovatore
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Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo. The Count...
- 1981
Samson et Dalila
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While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Abimelech, the Philistine satrap of Gaza, enters to...
- 2015
The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
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Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of...
- 2005
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot02005HD
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol in this visually stunning production of Giacomo...
- 2004
Madama Butterfly
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Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has...
- 2018
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte02018HD
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of...
- 1988
Il Trovatore
Il Trovatore81988HD
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour,...
- 2022
La Vie parisienne
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La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and...
- 1962
The Phantom of the Opera
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A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is...
- 2011
La Bohème (Sydney Opera House)
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- 2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo et Juliette
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Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation. Director Bartlett Sher’s...
- 2009
Bellini: La Sonnambula
Bellini: La Sonnambula02009HD
Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her...
- 1987
Aria
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Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each...
- 1982
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser01982HD
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s...
- 2015
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi02015HD
The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres...
- 2025
Song of the Hands
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This film takes you through the inspiring journey of Venezuela's Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir) while exploring their daily struggles and...
- 2004
Pelléas et Mélisande
Pelléas et Mélisande02004HD
Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on...
- 2016
Thomas: Hamlet
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The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder of his...