Mirella Freni Movies
- 1988
La Boheme
La Boheme81988HD
Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flow...
- 1965
La Bohème
La Bohème81965HD
In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone productio...
- 1975
The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro6.51975HD
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is a comedy whose dark undertones explore the blurred boundaries between dying feudalism and emerging Enlightenment. Herm...
- 1967
Bizet Carmen
Bizet Carmen61967HD
This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also...
- 1974
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly9.51974HD
Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-directed version of the Puccini opera, with Herbert...
- 1976
Verdi: Otello
Verdi: Otello01976HD
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio...
- 1997
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...
- 1989
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur01989HD
Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur concerns a doomed love based on a real story about an actress involved in a famous love triangle. Mirella Freni s...
- 1983
Don Carlo
Don Carlo81983HD
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vo...
- 1982
Verdi Ernani
Verdi Ernani81982HD
It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian B...
- 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...
- 1978
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra01978HD
Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for...
- 2008
Karajan: Beauty As I See It
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With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record sales topping 200 million, Herbert von Karajan is one o...
- 1983
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala01983HD
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding op...
- 1973
Otello
Otello01973HD
Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. As the tragic Moor of Venice...
- 1992
A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song01992HD
Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some of the carols sung by opera stars.
- 1998
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 199801998HD
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the B...