opera movies page 49

Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010 (2010)
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Music, Drama

Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back...

The Magic Flute: Metropolitan Opera (2011)
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Music

The Magic Flute has delighted audiences of all ages for centuries. Julie Taymor's dazzling English-language production brings one of Mozart s...

Beethoven: Fidelio (1999)
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Music

Ludwig van Beethoven's lone opera -- written during the Napoleonic era -- stands as a stirring tribute to humanity's unceasing pursuit of liberty and...

Handel: Giulio Cesare (1990)
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Music

Director Peter Sellars helms this provocative adaptation of George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare," sung in the original Italian by soprano...

Antonín Dvorák: The Devil and Kate (2009)
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Music

Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her parents by...

Del Monaco: Andrea Chenier (1961)
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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...

Rossini: L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro (1982)
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Music

Esteemed Italian conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a moving performance of Rossini's one-act opera...

Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel (2008)
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Music

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

The Pearlfishers (2005)
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Drama, Music

A village hires a priestess to pray for the safety of their pearl fishermen, but long lost love gets in the way.

Love Forbids You (1910)
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Music

Directed by Alberto Botelho.

Rêve Kakudji (2013)
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Documentary

Serge Kakudji is a twenty-year-old Congolese counter tenor who fell in love with opera as a young boy, listening to audiotapes of opera recordings in...

Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne (1999)
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Music

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets recorded at Glyndebourne Opera House in 1999. The...

Bartoli in Italy (1998)
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Documentary, Music

In the awe-inspiring Teatro Olimpico,Vicenza, Cecilia Bartoli, recognised as one of the best singers of our time, gives the most outstanding recital...

The Bartered Bride (1913)
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Comedy

Directed by Max Urban.

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot (2005)
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Music

Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol in this visually stunning production of Giacomo...

Marco Polo (An Opera Within an Opera) (2008)
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Music

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and physical discovery, a voyage depicting spiritual...

The Marriage of Figaro (1993)
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Music, Comedy

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the Pappano are better still due to the female...

A Cossack Beyond the Danube (1953)
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Music, Romance

Zaporozhets za Dunayem (Ukrainian: Запорожець за Дунаєм, translated as A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyond the Danube, also referred to...

Roger Waters - Ca Ira Live in Poland (2006)
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Music

Ça Ira (French for "It'll be fine", subtitled "There is Hope") is an opera in three acts by Roger Waters based on the French libretto co-written by...

Maria Callas: Toujours - Paris 1958 (2015)
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Music, Documentary

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to...