Opera Movies

This short begins with a pair thriving in a lush paradise representing the Garden of Eden. The pair are suddenly uprooted and driven to the unknown:...

Rossini’s opera based on the fairy-tale Cinderella, filmed in real-life Italian locations in the ballrooms and gardens of some of Turin’s...

Rarely has a theatrical world premiere been so warmly received as Dutch National Opera’s production of Arnold Schönberg’s...

Janáček's Opera as presented by The Vienna Philharmonic in 1992 in Salzburg

The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.

Directed by Andy Sommer. Starring Heike Grötzinger, Gerhard Siegel, Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013

Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell...

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the Pappano are better still due to the female...

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets in the way.

An opera musical with nuns and a priest trying to do their jobs.

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. In Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy at the Gran Teatre...

In “a Wagner staging to treasure” (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to life the legendary German...

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.

In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her...

Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of Notre-Dame and of his impossible and tragic love...

Johannes Felsenstein’s production of HANSEL AND GRETEL presents it with every sinister element removed. The children remain in a home setting...