Topic: Opera

Direction Sam Wood

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

Plot Moved by a strange sense of business, Groucho gets all the stars of the Milano Opera on a boat headed to New York. Two stowaways also travel on the same...

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

Plot 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....

Direction Rupert Julian

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between...

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

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

Plot 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...

Direction Chuck Jones

Plot 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...

Direction Joseph Losey

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

Plot 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...

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 Chuck Jones

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

Direction Jean-Stéphane Bron

Cast Stéphane Lissner · Benjamin Millepied

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Brett Sullivan · Simon Phillips

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

Plot 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...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

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

Plot 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...

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 Philippe Kohly

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

Plot 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

Plot 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.

Direction Tex Avery

Plot A magician is spurned by an opera singer, and takes a spectacular revenge by replacing the conductor and turning the hapless tenor into one thing after another. And watch out...