Screenplay: Francesco Maria Piave

Direction Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Cast Ingvar Wixell · Edita Gruberova · Luciano Pavarotti · Ferruccio Furlanetto

Plot This summary contains the complete plot of the opera Rigoletto by Guiseppi Verdi. Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Teresa Stratas · Plácido Domingo · Cornell MacNeil · Allan Monk

Plot "La Traviata" is simply that of "Camille." The principal incidents of Dumas's play are reproduced with general fidelity in the opera. In the first act there are scenes of gayety...

Direction Pietro D'Agostino

Cast Marcelo Álvarez · Inva Mula-Çako · Julian Konstantinov · Nino Surguladze

Direction Carlo Battistoni

Cast Piero Cappuccilli · Nicolai Ghiaurov · Shirley Verrett · Stefania Malagù

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Adolphe Menjou · Louise Fazenda

Direction Barry Purves

Direction Gianfranco Fozzi

Cast Roberto Servile · Inva Mula-Çako · Marcelo Álvarez · Andrea Silvestrelli

Plot Despite its odd title, this is a filmed performance of the opera performed at Piazza del campo, Siena. Court jester Rigoletto takes things too far, and suffers dire consequences.

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Tito Gobbi · Marcella Govoni · Lina Pagliughi · Mario Filippeschi

Plot This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda.

Direction Mario Lanfranchi

Cast Anna Moffo · Gino Bechi · Franco Bonisolli · Mafalda Micheluzzi

Direction Humphrey Burton · Peter Maniura

Cast Angela Gheorghiu · Frank Lopardo · Leo Nucci · Leah-Marian Jones

Plot Giuseppe Verdi's opera based on the novel "The Lady of the Camellias".

Direction Alfréd Deésy

Cast Annie Góth · Bela Lugosi · Norbert Dán · Róbert Fiáth

Plot Adapted from the Verdi opera Un Ballo in Masch. Bela Lugosi portrayed Rene, the Secretary-Govener.

Cast Alfredo Kraus · John Rawnsley · Patricia Wise · Miguel Ángel Zapater

Plot Rigoletto, hunchbacked jester, plans to take revenge on his master, the Duke of Mantua.