Opera Movies

  • 2017
    Puccini: La Bohème

    Puccini: La Bohème

    Puccini: La Bohème

    02017HD

    No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a...

    Puccini: La Bohème
  • 2005
    Werther

    Werther

    Werther

    02005HD

    Alain Guingal conducts the Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino in this production of Massenet's opera based on the novel 'The Sorrows of Young...

    Werther
  • 2019
    La Belle Hélène

    La Belle Hélène

    La Belle Hélène

    82019HD

    La belle Hélène is the work that confirmed Offenbach's international reputation. The libretto caricatures the conventions of Greek...

    La Belle Hélène
  • 2004
    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly

    02004HD

    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...

    Madama Butterfly
  • 2006
    Otello

    Otello

    Otello

    02006HD

    José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona,...

    Otello
  • 2001
    Otello

    Otello

    Otello

    02001HD

    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...

    Otello
  • 2005
    Don Carlos

    Don Carlos

    Don Carlos

    02005HD

    Politics and love leads to a love triangle between father, son and stepmother.

    Don Carlos
  • 2018
    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    02018HD

    Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
  • 1969
    Idomeneo

    Idomeneo

    Idomeneo

    01969HD

    This TV production is from 1970 and the color picture is accordingly rich and beautiful. The sound however is below average for the era, but still...

    Idomeneo
  • 1993
    Verdi Stiffelio

    Verdi Stiffelio

    Verdi Stiffelio

    01993HD

    Stiffelio is considered "early Verdi" to musiclogists who classify things, but, in reality, it is a final transition between the maestro's earlier...

    Verdi Stiffelio
  • 2016
    Thomas: Hamlet

    Thomas: Hamlet

    Thomas: Hamlet

    02016HD

    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...

    Thomas: Hamlet
  • 2015
    Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

    Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

    Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi

    02015HD

    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...

    Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
  • 2013
    Le comte Ory

    Le comte Ory

    Le comte Ory

    72013HD

    Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-language comedy opera described by the...

    Le comte Ory
  • 2015
    The Met — Il Trovatore

    The Met — Il Trovatore

    The Met — Il Trovatore

    82015HD

    Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of...

    The Met — Il Trovatore
  • 2025
    Song of the Hands

    Song of the Hands

    Song of the Hands

    02025HD

    This film takes you through the inspiring journey of Venezuela's Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir) while exploring their daily struggles and...

    Song of the Hands
  • 1982
    Puccini: La bohème

    Puccini: La bohème

    Puccini: La bohème

    01982HD

    "La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera....

    Puccini: La bohème
  • 1986
    Otello

    Otello

    Otello

    5.91986HD

    Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds...

    Otello
  • 2007
    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

    02007HD

    The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically...

    Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
  • 2015
    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders

    72015HD

    Go inside the building that has been the source of some of the greatest moments in music, ballet and opera.

    La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders
  • 2017
    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

    02017HD

    Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather...

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden