Movies: Filmed opera

  • 2020
    The Sound of Identity

    The Sound of Identity (2020)

    The Sound of Identity

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    In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic debut in one of the reddest states in the U.S....

    The Sound of Identity
  • 1969
    Candide

    Candide (1969)

    Candide

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    The innocent Candide discovers that human beings aren't all they are cracked up to be and ultimately focuses on building his own life on his own terms....

    Candide
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka (2024)

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka

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    Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her ...

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro

    Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro (2024)

    Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro

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    Count Almaviva lives with his Countess on their estate near Seville. The Count has his eye on his wife’s maid Susanna, who is betrothed to the Count’s servant, Figaro. Much to Figaro’s dismay, the Count plans to seduce Susanna on wedding night. Meanw...

    Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro
  • 2023
    The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte

    The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte (2023)

    The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte

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    The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino e...

    The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte
  • 2022
    7 Deaths of Maria Callas

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2022)

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas

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    A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria Callas (1923-77), whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th ce...

    7 Deaths of Maria Callas
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle

    Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle (2024)

    Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle

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    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 devastated as the community is broken and homes destroyed. We follow the fortunes of a father, mother and the...

    Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

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    Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and stra...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome
  • 1979
    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni (1979)

    Don Giovanni

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    Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last c...

    Don Giovanni
  • 1988
    The Tales of Hoffmann - Teatro Regio di Parma, 1988

    The Tales of Hoffmann - Teatro Regio di Parma, 1988 (1988)

    The Tales of Hoffmann - Teatro Regio di Parma, 1988

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    "Despite the multitude of characters and situations, the plot is simple: the eternal flow of life. It is based on Les contes fantastiques d’Hoffmann, a play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who were inspired by some of the stories of the German E.T...

    The Tales of Hoffmann - Teatro Regio di Parma, 1988
  • 1982
    Verdi: Rigoletto

    Verdi: Rigoletto (1982)

    Verdi: Rigoletto

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    Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a l...

    Verdi: Rigoletto
  • 1960
    Koroghlu

    Koroghlu (1960)

    Koroghlu

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    The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan....

    Koroghlu
  • 1958
    Countess Mariza

    Countess Mariza (1958)

    Countess Mariza

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    Paying a rare visit to her estate, a countess clashes with the man she hired to manage it....

    Countess Mariza
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier (2024)

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

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    At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalen...

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
  • 1985
    Faust

    Faust (1985)

    Faust

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    In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell....

    Faust
  • 2025
    Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau (2025)

    Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau

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    A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the Académie royale and inspired by the mythological episode of the Gemini. Rarely performed in its original version – the score was reworked...

    Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • 1989
    Carmen

    Carmen (1989)

    Carmen

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

    Carmen
  • 2023
    Royal Opera House: Turandot

    Royal Opera House: Turandot (2023)

    Royal Opera House: Turandot

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    In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers correctly, suddenly he holds all the power – and a glorious secret. When life hangs in the balance, can love conquer al...

    Royal Opera House: Turandot
  • 2023
    The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker (2023)

    The Nutcracker

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    Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and her Nutcracker. The magician Drosselmeyer transforms the drawing room into a battle between mice an...

    The Nutcracker
  • 2022
    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (2022)

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico

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    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 lyrical and sensitive Suor Angelica, and the comedy Gianni Schicchi – premiered in New York. Three different...

    Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico