Opera Movies
- 1964
Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II01964HD
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna....
- 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.
- 2012
Britten: Peter Grimes
Britten: Peter Grimes02012HD
The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on...
- 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...
- 2015
La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders
La Scala Theatre: the Temple of Wonders72015HD
Go inside the building that has been the source of some of the greatest moments in music, ballet and opera.
- 1982
Parsifal
Parsifal6.41982HD
A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy....
- 2010
Thomas: Hamlet
Thomas: Hamlet02010HD
After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater...
- 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...
- 1983
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute01983HD
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird...
- 2014
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro02014HD
Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy...
- 1983
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Rossini: La Cenerentola01983HD
La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story, an exciting mixture of comedy, pathos, coloratura fireworks and...
- 2018
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini8.52018HD
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably...
- 2006
La Clemenza di Tito
La Clemenza di Tito82006HD
The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final opera seria. With a libretto by Metastasio (edited...
- 2022
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
7 Deaths of Maria Callas72022HD
A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria...
- 2021
Les enfants de bohème
Les enfants de bohème02021HD
Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the...
- 2010
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]02010HD
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the...
- 2006
Rigoletto
Rigoletto102006HD
Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for...
- 1950
La forza del destino
La forza del destino51950HD
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
- 1997
La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola01997HD
A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an ideal propellant for a virtuosic...
- 1985
Die Nacht aus Blei
Die Nacht aus Blei81985HD
A surreal movie by peter Weigl starring Michael Biehn and Lubomir Kafka.