Screenplay: Luigi Illica

Direction Frédéric Mitterrand

Cast Richard Cowan · Richard Troxell · Ying Huang · Ning Liang

Plot Director Frederic Mitterand's acclaimed cinematic adaptation of Puccini's popular opera is the first filmed version to use both Western and Eastern actors. Presented by Martin Scorcese, this tragic tale of...

Direction Benoît Jacquot

Cast Angela Gheorghiu · Roberto Alagna · Ruggero Raimondi · David Cangelosi

Plot Benoit Jacquot reinvents the way we view opera in this magnificent production of Puccini's story of Tosca's love for the painter Cavaradossi and the intervention of Scarpia.

Direction Robert Dornhelm

Cast Anna Netrebko · Rolando Villazón · Nicole Cabell · Tiziano Bracci

Plot "La Bohème" is about the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, set in Paris in the year 1830.

Direction Carl Koch · Jean Renoir

Cast Imperio Argentina · Rossano Brazzi · Michel Simon · Adriano Rimoldi

Direction Werner Herzog

Plot Part of a series of opera shorts by different directors. Herzog combines O Soave Fanciulla ("Oh you vision of beauty" from Puccini's La Boheme) with images of harsh life in...

Direction Wilhelm Semmelroth

Cast Gianni Raimondi · Rolando Panerai · Gianni Maffeo · Ivo Vinco

Plot For The First Time The Full Dimension of Opera on Film

Direction Jonas Cornell

Cast Helena Döse · Loa Falkman

Direction Nick Olchowy

Cast Lando Bartolini · Pablo Elvira · John Fanning · Dennis Goodwin

Plot In 1904, B. F. Pinkerton, a U.S. Navy officer aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, takes a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his fiancee, the fifteen-year-old...

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Kaoru Yachigusa · Nicola Filacuridi · Michiko Tanaka · Ferdinando Lidonni

Direction Carmine Gallone

Cast Franca Duval · Maria Caniglia · Franco Corelli · Afro Poli

Direction Carlo Battistoni

Cast Marcelo Álvarez · Natale De Carolis · Matteo Peirone · Cristina Gallardo Domas

Plot During the 1830s in Paris, a group of starvjng artists share poverty, happiness, love, sickness, death, and grief.

Direction Giuseppe Patroni Griffi · Brian Large

Cast Catherine Malfitano · Plácido Domingo · Ruggero Raimondi · Giacomo Prestia

Direction Mark Dornford-May

Cast Noluthando Boqwana · Zamile Gantana · Sifiso Lupuzi · Pauline Malefane

Plot A South African township set version of Puccini’s La Bohème. The striking and brutal realities of the students struggling for food, shelter and medication. Mimi's death from TB - and...

Direction Robin Lough

Cast Inva Mula-Çako · Laura Giordano · Aquiles Machado · Fabio Capitanucci

Plot Madrid's legendary Teatro Real staged this production of Giacomo Puccini's seminal opera La Bohème, starring Inva Mula, Aquiles Machado and Jesús López Cobos in the principal roles. Giancarlo del Monaco...

Cast Plácido Domingo · Piero Cappuccilli · Czeslawa Slania · Gabriela Benacková

Plot The poet and revolutionary André Chenier in Paris in 1789.

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Barbara Hendricks · Josep Carreras · Luca Canonici · Angela Maria Blasi

Plot In 1987, Luigi Comencini adapted the beloved Puccini opera La Bohème for the silver screen, a masterful work which was to be one of his last films.

Direction Clemente Fracassi

Cast Raf Vallone · Antonella Lualdi · Michel Auclair · Rina Morelli

Direction Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

Cast Mirella Freni · Plácido Domingo · Christa Ludwig · Robert Kerns

Plot Of all Puccini's major operas, the intimate tragedy of Madama Butterfly is least in need of elaborate staging and might therefore benefit most from the close scrutiny of film. The...