Topic: Opera

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis A Night at the Opera (1935) follows the comedic misadventures of Otis B. Driftwood, a sly businessman, as he tries to help two young opera singers achieve fame and love. Set against the backdrop of the opera world, the film...

Direction Ramón Gener · Alan Fàbregas · Toniu Xou · Ramon Balagué

Cast Ramón Gener

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Günter Reich · Louis Devos · Eva Csapo · Roger Lucas

Synopsis Moses und Aron is a 1973 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet based on the unfinished opera of the same title by Arnold Schoenberg. During its 1975 run at US festivals, it was also...

Direction Rupert Julian

Cast Lon Chaney · Mary Philbin · Norman Kerry · Snitz Edwards

Synopsis At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs,...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Teresa Stratas · Plácido Domingo · Juan Pons · Alberto Rinaldi

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Richard Salter · Christine Whittlesey · Annabelle Hahn · Claudia Barainsky

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Synopsis Farewell My Concubine (1993) follows the tumultuous lives of two Peking Opera performers, Douzi (later known as Cheng Dieyi) and Shitou (later known as Duan Xiaolou), spanning decades of political and personal upheaval in 20th-century China. Bound by their art...

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Armin Jordan · Robert Lloyd · Martin Sperr · Michael Kutter

Synopsis Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search...

Direction Chuck Jones

Synopsis What's Opera, Doc? is a 1957 American animated cartoon short in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros. Cartoons. The Michael Maltese story features Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny through a 6:11 operatic parody of 19th...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Ruggero Raimondi · Edda Moser · Kiri Te Kanawa · José Van Dam

Synopsis The exploits of Don Giovanni are renowned the world over, his seduction of ladies across the continent – young and old, ugly and beautiful, rich and poor alike (anything in a skirt really) - constituting an impressive tally (2065 at...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

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

Synopsis "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 in the house of Violetta--dancing, feasting, and love-making. Among the...

Direction Chuck Jones

Synopsis Bugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.

Direction Tom Volf

Synopsis In colour and 4K Ultra HD, meticulously restored from recently discovered 16mm prints, shows diva Maria Callas performing at the Paris Opera for the first time December 19th 1958.

Direction Jean-Stéphane Bron

Cast Stéphane Lissner · Benjamin Millepied

Synopsis A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Moira Shearer · Leonid Massine · Robert Helpmann · Robert Rounseville

Synopsis This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera...

Direction Brett Sullivan · Simon Phillips

Cast Ben Lewis · Anna O'Byrne · Simon Gleeson · María Mercedes

Synopsis Love Never Dies is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and later Charles Hart, and book by Lloyd Webber, Slater and Ben Elton. It is a sequel to the Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Clark Gable · Jeanette MacDonald · Spencer Tracy · Jack Holt

Synopsis The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable...

Direction Robert Dornhelm

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

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

Direction Philippe Kohly

Cast Maria Callas · Philippe Faure · Jean Cocteau · Giuseppe Di Stefano

Synopsis A documentary that commemorates the 30th anniversary of famed soprano Maria Callas's death.

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Jeremy Irons · John Lone · Barbara Sukowa · Ian Richardson

Synopsis In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.