Movies: Opera

  • 1941
    Tosca

    Tosca (1941)

    Tosca

    5.31941HD

    Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom....

    Tosca
  • 2009
    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola (2009)

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

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    "Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As close to pure joy as you will find in a big-time opera house" (New Yorker), conquering audiences and cr...

    Rossini: La Cenerentola
  • 1951
    The Tales of Hoffmann

    The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

    The Tales of Hoffmann

    7.11951HD

    A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves h...

    The Tales of Hoffmann
  • 1956
    Serenade

    Serenade (1956)

    Serenade

    5.51956HD

    A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl....

    Serenade
  • 1938
    The Girl Downstairs

    The Girl Downstairs (1938)

    The Girl Downstairs

    4.51938HD

    A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him....

    The Girl Downstairs
  • 1982
    Yes, Giorgio

    Yes, Giorgio (1982)

    Yes, Giorgio

    3.81982HD

    A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with....

    Yes, Giorgio
  • 2006
    The Magic Flute

    The Magic Flute (2006)

    The Magic Flute

    6.32006HD

    During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems....

    The Magic Flute
  • 2007
    Aria Diva

    Aria Diva (2007)

    Aria Diva

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    Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with...

    Aria Diva
  • 1961
    Black Tights

    Black Tights (1961)

    Black Tights

    6.21961HD

    Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen....

    Black Tights
  • 2004
    Silentium

    Silentium (2004)

    Silentium

    7.22004HD

    A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself....

    Silentium
  • 1950
    Rabbit of Seville

    Rabbit of Seville (1950)

    Rabbit of Seville

    7.61950HD

    Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him ...

    Rabbit of Seville
  • 2018
    Swan Lake

    Swan Lake (2018)

    Swan Lake

    8.52018HD

    The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring Marianela Nunez as Odette/Odile and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Siegfried....

    Swan Lake
  • 1949
    That Midnight Kiss

    That Midnight Kiss (1949)

    That Midnight Kiss

    51949HD

    Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence bec...

    That Midnight Kiss
  • 2024
    The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

    The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco (2024)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco

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    The success of Verdi’s third opera, a stirring drama about the fall of ancient Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco), catapulted the 28-year-old composer to international fame. The music and Verdi himself were subsumed into a surge of pa...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
  • 1959
    Eugene Onegin

    Eugene Onegin (1959)

    Eugene Onegin

    5.41959HD

    Eugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to ingratiate himself into the affection of a dying uncle. There he meets the idealistic and romantic poet Vladimir Lensky, who introduces him to the daugh...

    Eugene Onegin
  • 2005
    La traviata

    La traviata (2005)

    La traviata

    7.92005HD

    Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta, who is already suffering from consumption. She vacillates between gen...

    La traviata
  • 2024
    Carmina Burana: Dancing in Defiance

    Carmina Burana: Dancing in Defiance (2024)

    Carmina Burana: Dancing in Defiance

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    A live recording of Carl Orff's world-famous musical masterpiece Carmina Burana, performed by more than 100 singers and dancers of the National Opera and Ballet of Ukraine (Odessa)....

    Carmina Burana: Dancing in Defiance
  • 1996
    Lulu

    Lulu (1996)

    Lulu

    7.21996HD

    Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack...

    Lulu
  • 2025
    The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse

    The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse (2025)

    The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse

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    A sudden gunshot shatters the dream of two lovers on their wedding day. The fate of Orpheus and Eurydice is cruel: on the very day they sought to seal their love, EurydiceΆs soul embarks on its journey to the underworld. Heartbroken, Orpheus embarks ...

    The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse
  • 2018
    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood (2018)

    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

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    In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its entire 2018 season to the iconic composer, conductor, performer, educator and humanitarian. The festivities culminated on ...

    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood