James Courtney Movies

  • 2000
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

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    Mozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years. A few weeks before this telecast, the Met unveile...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
  • 1955
    Air Strike

    Air Strike

    Air Strike

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    Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of challenges as he attempts to transform the greenho...

    Air Strike
  • 1997
    Billy Budd

    Billy Budd

    Billy Budd

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    John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and inn...

    Billy Budd
  • 1997
    Fedora

    Fedora

    Fedora

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    Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her...

    Fedora
  • 1996
    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

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    This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I cou...

    Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
  • 1984
    Simon Boccanegra

    Simon Boccanegra

    Simon Boccanegra

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    Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra

    Simon Boccanegra
  • 1982
    Idomeneo

    Idomeneo

    Idomeneo

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    Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of Cr...

    Idomeneo
  • 1985
    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tosca

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    Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.

    Tosca
  • 2017
    The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata

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    La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach to...

    The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
  • 2009
    The Met — Tosca

    The Met — Tosca

    The Met — Tosca

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    Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the repertoire. Luc Bondy’s production, wi...

    The Met — Tosca
  • 1943
    Around the World

    Around the World

    Around the World

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    Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops d...

    Around the World
  • 1992
    La Fanciulla del West

    La Fanciulla del West

    La Fanciulla del West

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    Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the California Gold Rush. At the center of the...

    La Fanciulla del West
  • 1993
    Falstaff

    Falstaff

    Falstaff

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    It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comed...

    Falstaff
  • 1988
    An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

    An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

    An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti

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    Opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland -- one of the most acclaimed tenors and one of the most beloved sopranos of the 20th century -- tak...

    An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
  • 2018
    The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie

    The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie

    The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie

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    Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beaut...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie
  • 1988
    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos

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    Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James Kin...

    Ariadne auf Naxos
  • 2013
    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

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    Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in hi...

    Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • 2013
    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

    Berlioz: Les Troyens

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    Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in hi...

    Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • 2008
    Strauss: Salome

    Strauss: Salome

    Strauss: Salome

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    It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila...

    Strauss: Salome
  • 2015
    The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu

    The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu

    The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu

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    William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and allur...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu