Soundtrack: Giacomo Puccini

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 Karl Lagerfeld

Cast Keira Knightley · Clotilde Hesme · Asleigh Good · Lindsey Wixon

Plot The year is 1913 and Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel - played by British actress Keira Knightley - and her aunt Adrienne (Clotilde Hesme) have just set up shop in the well-heeled...

Direction Sean Astin

Cast Andrew Lesnie · Praphaphorn 'Fon' Chansantor · Paul Randall · Peter Jackson

Plot A workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes.

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Sara Scuderi · Della Benning · Irma Colasanti · Giulia Scaramelli

Plot Shortly before his death, Giuseppe Verdi created the "Casa di Riposo" (quite literally, "rest home") in Milan for retired opera singers. For many years, the house was funded by royalties...

Direction Carmine Gallone

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

Direction Giuseppe Patroni Griffi · Brian Large

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

Direction Gregg Cruttwell

Cast Emma Amos · Samuel Anderson · Siobhan Bevan · Brian Bovell

Plot "The Football Monologues" tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game.

Direction Laurent Firode

Cast Anne Arovas · Angélique Atlan · Yann Chermat · Valeria Dafarra

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 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...