Opera Movies

  • 2009
    The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

    The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

    The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

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    In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

    The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
  • 1993
    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

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    The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which...

    Porgy and Bess
  • 2010
    Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]

    Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]

    Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]

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    When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the...

    Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
  • 2007
    Norma

    Norma

    Norma

    92007HD

    NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she...

    Norma
  • 2022
    La Vie parisienne

    La Vie parisienne

    La Vie parisienne

    02022HD

    La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and...

    La Vie parisienne
  • 1993
    Falstaff

    Falstaff

    Falstaff

    7.51993HD

    It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great...

    Falstaff
  • 1982
    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    6.41982HD

    A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy....

    Parsifal
  • 1937
    Halka

    Halka

    Halka

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    Halka
  • 2000
    Tannhäuser

    Tannhäuser

    Tannhäuser

    02000HD

    A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo. The original title,...

    Tannhäuser
  • 1935
    Do Not Forget About Me

    Do Not Forget About Me

    Do Not Forget About Me

    01935HD

    This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way...

    Do Not Forget About Me
  • 1987
    Rigoletto

    Rigoletto

    Rigoletto

    01987HD

    Kraus - Nucci - Serra - Pertusi - Vespasiani ... Chour du Théâtre Regio de Parme Orchestre Symphonique dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo...

    Rigoletto
  • 1976
    Prodaná nevěsta

    Prodaná nevěsta

    Prodaná nevěsta

    01976HD

    Set in a South Bohemian village, this faithful film version of Smetana’s opera follows farmer Krušina’s plan to marry his daughter...

    Prodaná nevěsta
  • 2015
    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

    102015HD

    Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris....

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron
  • 1936
    The Gay Desperado

    The Gay Desperado

    The Gay Desperado

    2.81936HD

    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...

    The Gay Desperado
  • 2011
    MacBeth

    MacBeth

    MacBeth

    02011HD

    Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

    MacBeth
  • 2016
    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

    02016HD

    Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with...

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
  • 2016
    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers

    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers

    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers

    82016HD

    Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock’s...

    Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
  • 1986
    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tosca

    01986HD

    This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations and at the precise times of day as Puccini had...

    Tosca
  • 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
  • 2016
    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    Parsifal

    02016HD

    Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner’s...

    Parsifal