Movies: Filmed opera

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019

    Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 (2020)

    Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019

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    Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Or...

    Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville

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    Mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the titular b...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Barber of Seville
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2010
    Hunter's Bride

    Hunter's Bride (2010)

    Hunter's Bride

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    Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie for the heart of the same woman....

    Hunter's Bride
  • 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
  • 1989
    Carmen

    Carmen (1989)

    Carmen

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

    Carmen
  • 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
  • 1995
    Fru Björks öden och äventyr

    Fru Björks öden och äventyr (1995)

    Fru Björks öden och äventyr

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

    Fru Björks öden och äventyr
  • 1985
    Faust

    Faust (1985)

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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
  • 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