Filmed Opera Movies

In a village in a country far away, the community live well and support each other. But when civil war breaks out this idyll of existence is...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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