Filmed Opera Movies

A filmed stage production of the story of Pelle Svanslös, the cat who lost his tail as a kitten, and his interactions with all the other cats in...

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of...

Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto in French by Jules Barbier (1825-1901), based on a...

Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his triptych – the grim tragedy Il tabarro, the...

The story follows Vivian's life from young girl through two marriages, divorce, liberation and class trip, to a baglady.

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destino, conducting his ninth Verdi title at La Scala....

Opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hector Berlioz's version (1859)

A godforsaken village in Germany shortly after the Thirty Years’ War: The young scrivener Max loves Agathe, daughter of the head forester Kuno....

A colorful and comedic staging of the classic opera buffa by the Vienna State Opera.

Plácido Domingo · Ileana Cotrubas Cornell MacNeil The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Levine