Topic: Opera

Direction Chuck Jones · Maurice Noble

Plot Tom is an opera singer, trying to sing "Figaro"; Jerry lives under the stage, and Tom is disturbing his sleep. This, of course, means war.

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway

Plot Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut...

Direction Antonio A. Farré

Cast Montserrat Caballé · Plácido Domingo · Renée Fleming · Freddie Mercury

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Julia Migenes · Plácido Domingo · Ruggero Raimondi · Faith Esham

Plot A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a french soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful spanish factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his...

Direction Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast Frédéric Andrei · Wilhelmenia Wiggins · Richard Bohringer · Thuy An Luu

Plot Marvellous amalgam of sadistic thriller and fairytale romance, DIVA is a charming French original that combines intrigue, romance and a delirious soundtrack in a visually stunning and stylish debut from...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Anett Fritsch · Juan Francisco Gatell · Paola Gardina · Andreas Wolf

Plot Real Theatre from Madrid presents one of Mozarts' greatest opera staged by 2013 Oscar winner Michael Haneke.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Herbert Lom · Heather Sears · Edward de Souza · Michael Gough

Plot Hammer's version of the Phantom starts right in with odd happenings at the opera like missing music, destroyed instruments and stories of ghosts. On opening night of the opera (which...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Charles Dance · Burt Lancaster · Teri Polo · Adam Storke

Plot Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the...

Direction Tsui Hark

Cast Brigitte Lin · Cherie Chung · Sally Yeh · Kenneth Tsang

Plot The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Nelson Eddy · Susanna Foster · Claude Rains · Edgar Barrier

Plot Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and...

Direction Darren Lynn Bousman

Cast Alexa PenaVega · Bill Moseley · Paul Sorvino · Paris Hilton

Plot In the not-so-distant future when an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, scientists gear for a massive organ harvest. A biotech giant comes up with easy organ payment plans,...

Direction Clyde Geronimi · Hamilton Luske

Plot The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in several...

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Maria Callas · Brigitte Bardot · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Jean Cocteau

Plot A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

Direction Rayna P. Buxton

Plot Phantom hunter duo Brio and Drusilla clash with an Opera singer from another realm.

Direction Kaspar Jancis

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Plácido Domingo · Katia Ricciarelli · Justino Diaz · Petra Malakova

Plot Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio...

Direction Claude Zidi Jr.

Cast MB14 · Michèle Laroque · Guillaume Duhesme · Maëva El Aroussi

Plot Antoine, a young Parisian suburbanite, studies accounting without much conviction, dividing his time between the rap battles he practices with talent and his job as a sushi delivery boy. During...

Direction Shamus Culhane

Plot An opera-singing Woody Woodpecker takes over a barbershop and harasses the customers. The Barber of Seville is the 10th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically...

Direction Xavier Giannoli

Cast Catherine Frot · André Marcon · Christa Theret · Michel Fau

Plot 1921, the beginning of the Roaring Twenties. Not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Douglas · Linda Darnell · Celeste Holm · Charles Coburn

Plot Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera...