Topic: Opera

Direction Pablo Larraín

Cast Angelina Jolie · Pierfrancesco Favino · Alba Rohrwacher · Haluk Bilginer

Plot The tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

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...

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Xie Fang · Cao Yindi · Deng Nan · Dong Lin

Plot In 1935 a runaway daughter-in-law, Zhu Chunhua, takes refuge at an itinerant Yue Opera troupe performing at a Shaoxing village. The head of the troupe, A’Xin, intends to send the...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Meryl Streep · Hugh Grant · Simon Helberg · Nina Arianda

Plot Streep stars as a New York heiress determined to become a famous opera singer despite her lack of talent. Grant will play her partner and manager, actor St. Clair Bayfield.

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Gloria Swanson · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Greig · Ferdinand Gottschalk

Plot Sexy Gloria Swanson (adorned in an array of stunning Coco Chanel gowns) stars in this romantic comedy as Nella Vago, a Hungarian opera diva whose singing coach insists that her...

Direction Petr Vaclav

Cast Vojtech Dyk · Elena Radonicich · Barbara Ronchi · Lana Vlady

Plot The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and...

Direction Gérard Corbiau

Cast Stefano Dionisi · Elsa Zylberstein · Enrico Lo Verso · Caroline Cellier

Plot Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he...

Direction Pjotr Sapegin

Plot A young oriental woman has a one-night stand with a blond sailor. The result: a girl, who makes her first appearance as a fish and later as a sort of...

Direction Wilfred Jackson

Plot Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The...

Direction Joel Schumacher

Cast Gerard Butler · Emmy Rossum · Minnie Driver · Patrick Wilson

Plot Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a disfigured musical genius (Gerard Butler) who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of...

Direction Dustin Hoffman

Cast Maggie Smith · Tom Courtenay · Billy Connolly · Pauline Collins

Plot Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean,...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Edna Purviance · Charles Chaplin · Jack Henderson · Leo White

Plot A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Direction Chris Savino

Plot Mickey searches for his ears, after losing them before a date with Minnie while being deaf at the same time. Now that Mickey discovers that the second and third pucks...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna

Plot Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons....

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Leon Lai · Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Chen Hong

Plot A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. Bertolt Brecht was one of his admirers, as was Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, who even filmed him. Chinese actor...

Direction Zlatko Grgic

Direction Juan Pablo Zaramella

Plot An original and particular moving night at the opera.

Direction Carl Koch · Jean Renoir

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

Direction Clément Cogitore

Cast Brahim Rachiki · Bintou Dembele · Grichka

Direction Ben Lewin

Cast Danielle Macdonald · Hugh Skinner · Joanna Lumley · Shazad Latif

Plot A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.