Movies: Opera

  • 2018
    Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots

    Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots (2018)

    Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots

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    Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Andreas Kriegenburg places these timeless conflicts of love and religion in an immaculate setting in which the costumes appear y...

    Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
  • 2013
    Written On Skin

    Written On Skin (2013)

    Written On Skin

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    When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Benjamin himself, it received a standing ovation. The opera's arrival at Covent Garden in 2013 was eagerly anticipated, and provided audiences with the ...

    Written On Skin
  • 1990
    Britten: The Turn of the Screw

    Britten: The Turn of the Screw (1990)

    Britten: The Turn of the Screw

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    In Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and soon discovers that it holds a murky secret involving her charges and two ghostly servants who wield a sinister influ...

    Britten: The Turn of the Screw
  • 2023
    Il turco in Italia - Teatro Real de Madrid

    Il turco in Italia - Teatro Real de Madrid (2023)

    Il turco in Italia - Teatro Real de Madrid

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    At the Teatro Real in Madrid, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Giacomo Sagripanti get to grips with Gioachino Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) – a delightful opera buffa teeming with colourful characters!...

    Il turco in Italia - Teatro Real de Madrid
  • 1961
    Del Monaco: Andrea Chenier

    Del Monaco: Andrea Chenier (1961)

    Del Monaco: Andrea Chenier

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    Renowned tenor Mario Del Monaco sings the lead in this production of Umberto Giordano's opera based on the life of French poet Andrea Chénier. With his unique vocal technique, Del Monaco brings a vibrant power to the title role, matched by complex an...

    Del Monaco: Andrea Chenier
  • 2018
    Jarrell: Bérénice

    Jarrell: Bérénice (2018)

    Jarrell: Bérénice

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    Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they try yet refuse to understand each other. Taking up the “majestic sadness” of these alexandrines, among the greatest verses in the French language, Micha...

    Jarrell: Bérénice
  • 1970
    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin) (1970)

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)

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    Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin....

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)
  • 2023
    William Tell - INO

    William Tell - INO (2023)

    William Tell - INO

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    A freedom fighter in Austrian-occupied Switzerland. An oppressive Habsburg governor. The most famous Swiss apple. And a love story that crosses national divides. Rossini’s thrilling epic, his final masterpiece with the world’s most famous overture, ...

    William Tell - INO
  • 2021
    dei notturni splendori

    dei notturni splendori (2021)

    dei notturni splendori

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    “And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say what you will, say what you may.” The sound of a distant whistle and theorbo calls a sleeping singer through the empty streets of Stuttgart in a mid...

    dei notturni splendori
  • 2001
    Norma

    Norma (2001)

    Norma

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    Gaul has been conquered by the Romans. Oroveso, the Arch-Druid longs to lead a Gallic rebellion against the colonial forces. He and all the others wait for the signal to be given by his daughter, the Druid High Priestess Norma. But Norma has fallen i...

    Norma
  • 2013
    Die Frau ohne Schatten

    Die Frau ohne Schatten (2013)

    Die Frau ohne Schatten

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    In October 2013, the Mariinsky label releases a DVD & Blu-ray of Strauss most Wagnerian of operas, Die Frau ohne Schatten. Filmed in the historic Mariinsky Theatre in 2011, it stars Russian tenor Avgust Amonov as The Emperor, Mlada Khudoley as The Em...

    Die Frau ohne Schatten
  • 2011
    Glass: Kepler

    Glass: Kepler (2011)

    Glass: Kepler

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    Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies....

    Glass: Kepler
  • 2016
    Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride

    Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (2016)

    Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride

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    In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores of Tauride. Alas, it is Oreste, Iphigénie’s own brother, who appears, having murdered their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge the death of their f...

    Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
  • 1990
    Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

    Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera (1990)

    Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

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    Verdi - Un ballo in maschera / Domingo · Barstow · Quivar · Jo · Nucci · Rydl · Chaignaud · Wiener Phil. · Solti · Schlesinger · Salzburg Festival 1900...

    Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
  • 1997
    A Night with Handel

    A Night with Handel (1997)

    A Night with Handel

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    Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with Handel, stylishly dramatises some of the composer's most beautiful arias, linked together over the cour...

    A Night with Handel
  • 1970
    V studni

    V studni (1970)

    V studni

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    V studni
  • 2016
    Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016

    Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016 (2016)

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    Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016
  • 2017
    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden (2017)

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden

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    Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost. Protected by her parents from the jealousy of the Sun god Yarilo who has vowed to warm her heart when sh...

    Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden
  • 1981
    Elektra

    Elektra (1981)

    Elektra

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    Strauss's opera adapted to the screen by Gotz Friedrich....

    Elektra
  • 2008
    Mozart: Don Giovanni

    Mozart: Don Giovanni (2008)

    Mozart: Don Giovanni

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    A striking interpretation of Mozart's opera that became a sensation at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. This is not only a rethinking of the place and time of the opera, but also a deep disclosure of the characters' characters, their ambiguous inner world...

    Mozart: Don Giovanni