Opera Movies

Based on Gluck's masterpiece and performed entirely on location in and around the environs of the Baroque Theatre at the Cesky Krumlov Castle in the C...

When a passionate poet falls for a young woman, she is stirred by his ardent declaration of love. Yet she is promised to another and ends up rejecting...

As revenge for being humiliated at a masquerade ball Dr. Falke plays a trick on Gabriel von Eisenstein.

What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this...

Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage offsets this story of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and the magnificence of 16th cen...

A mermaid addicted to plastic finds herself trapped in an apartment building as she slowly disrupts the boring lives of two neighbors. Will they escap...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther s...

David Rendall, John Tomlinson, Janet Baker, Peter Butler, Rosalind Plowright, Angela Bostock, Glenn McKeown, Giuseppe Bardari, Tom Hammond, Alan Opie,...

Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m),sings this aria while smoking outside a nightclub in the second act, providing a windo...

LA Opera proudly presents The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme),an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George...

Carl Maria von Webers dark Romantic era tale of love, faith, and temptation is grippingly performed by the Dresden Staatskapelle led by conductor, Chr...

A documentary following two operatic productions at the Madrid Royal Opera House.

As bright and colorful as penny candy, this visually arresting production of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel" puts a twist on the classic f...

Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the Senate, favours sinning servants and humiliates ge...

Beatrix Cenci is an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by the composer and William Shand, based on the historical family of...