Movies: Opera live performance

  • 1980
    Don Carlo

    Don Carlo (1980)

    Don Carlo

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    Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition tries to exert its influence. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where heretics ...

    Don Carlo
  • 1987
    William Tell

    William Tell (1987)

    William Tell

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    “Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid) This is the material from which the most Swiss of all operas is made: the legendary Wilhelm Tell – a Swiss hero:...

    William Tell
  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

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    This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, w...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
  • 1987
    Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1987)

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail

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    Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds h...

    Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  • 2002
    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona

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    Notre Dame de Paris tells the story of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of the cathedral of Notre-Dame and of his impossible and tragic love for Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy. A love condemned by injustice and hypocrisy. Quasimodo forced by his ...

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona
  • 1984
    Die Fledermaus

    Die Fledermaus (1984)

    Die Fledermaus

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    Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion--and this December 31, 1983, Covent Garden performance follows suit. An exceptional cast--led by Hermann ...

    Die Fledermaus
  • 1997
    Carmen

    Carmen (1997)

    Carmen

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    Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997....

    Carmen
  • 2011
    Tosca

    Tosca (2011)

    Tosca

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    The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House were under the baton of Antonio Pappano, the Music Director of the Royal ...

    Tosca
  • 2007
    Benvenuto Cellini

    Benvenuto Cellini (2007)

    Benvenuto Cellini

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    Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for Teresa, daughter of the Papal Treasurer Balducci. His rival, the Papal Sculptor Fieramosca, overhears Cellini plotting to run away with Teresa during t...

    Benvenuto Cellini
  • 1997
    La Cenerentola

    La Cenerentola (1997)

    La Cenerentola

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    A timeless tale told in a florid bel canto style, Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story offers an ideal propellant for a virtuosic mezzo-soprano to rocket from rags to riches. But in this retelling, the supporting characters soar just as high: Cinde...

    La Cenerentola
  • 2003
    Bizet: Carmen

    Bizet: Carmen (2003)

    Bizet: Carmen

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    This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco Zeffirelli, best known to many for the Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ...

    Bizet: Carmen
  • 2009
    Carmen

    Carmen (2009)

    Carmen

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    Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 ....

    Carmen
  • 2000
    Tosca

    Tosca (2000)

    Tosca

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    Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. This version is conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala, Milan....

    Tosca
  • 2007
    Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino

    Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino (2007)

    Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino

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    Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino
  • 1988
    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1988)

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

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    Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for Neil Shicoff’s vivid portrayal of the tortured poet Hoffmann, as he recounts the loves of his life and the ...

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann
  • 2007
    Luisa Miller

    Luisa Miller (2007)

    Luisa Miller

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    As the release of the ‘Tutto Verdi’ series from the Teatro Regio progresses, one has begun to have fears that the later Verdi operas will fail to measure up to the standards that have been set on DVD by productions from international houses across th...

    Luisa Miller
  • 2007
    Carmen

    Carmen (2007)

    Carmen

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    Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading of one of the most popular operas. Kaufmann uses his burnished tenor and smouldering good looks to portray th...

    Carmen
  • 2021
    The Tales of Hoffman - National Opera Company (INBAL)

    The Tales of Hoffman - National Opera Company (INBAL) (2021)

    The Tales of Hoffman - National Opera Company (INBAL)

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    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 work that Barbier himself and Michel Carré (1821-1872) had written based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffma...

    The Tales of Hoffman - National Opera Company (INBAL)
  • 2002
    Carmen

    Carmen (2002)

    Carmen

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    David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chor...

    Carmen
  • 1983
    Rossini: La Cenerentola

    Rossini: La Cenerentola (1983)

    Rossini: La Cenerentola

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    La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story, an exciting mixture of comedy, pathos, coloratura fireworks and masquerade. This Glyndebourne production by John Cox captures perfectly the fairy-tale spirit of the piece,...

    Rossini: La Cenerentola