Filmed Opera Movies

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves Agathe, daughter of the head forester Kuno....

Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers correctly,...

"Despite the multitude of characters and situations, the plot is simple: the eternal flow of life. It is based on Les contes fantastiques...

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destino, conducting his ninth Verdi title at La Scala....

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of...

A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

The story follows Vivian's life from young girl through two marriages, divorce, liberation and class trip, to a baglady.

Opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hector Berlioz's version (1859)

A filmed stage production of the story of Pelle Svanslös, the cat who lost his tail as a kitten, and his interactions with all the other cats in...

Plácido Domingo · Ileana Cotrubas Cornell MacNeil The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Levine

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his triptych – the grim tragedy Il tabarro, the...