James Courtney Movies
- 2000
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute102000HD
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...
- 1955
Air Strike
Air Strike51955HD
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...
- 1997
Billy Budd
Billy Budd01997HD
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...
- 1997
Fedora
Fedora01997HD
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...
- 1996
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary01996HD
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...
- 1984
Simon Boccanegra
Simon Boccanegra01984HD
Live from the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra
- 1982
Idomeneo
Idomeneo91982HD
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...
- 1985
Tosca
Tosca71985HD
Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.
- 2017
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata82017HD
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...
- 2009
The Met — Tosca
The Met — Tosca02009HD
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...
- 1943
Around the World
Around the World51943HD
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...
- 1992
La Fanciulla del West
La Fanciulla del West101992HD
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...
- 1993
Falstaff
Falstaff8.21993HD
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...
- 1988
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti
An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti81988HD
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...
- 2018
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie102018HD
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...
- 1988
Ariadne auf Naxos
Ariadne auf Naxos01988HD
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...
- 2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz: Les Troyens02013HD
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...
- 2013
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz: Les Troyens02013HD
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...
- 2008
Strauss: Salome
Strauss: Salome02008HD
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...
- 2015
The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu
The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu102015HD
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and allur...