Filmed Opera Movies

Based on Gluck's masterpiece and performed entirely on location in and around the environs of the Baroque Theatre at the Cesky Krumlov Castle in the...

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...

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...

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

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird...

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

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)

From the Baroque Theater at Český Krumlov Castle: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice) starring Regula...

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...

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

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