Opera Movies

During his thirty-year career, Walter Hus, a Belgian composer and pianist, has taken a thousand musical faces. While he wanted to compose a new work,...

David Rendall, John Tomlinson, Janet Baker, Peter Butler, Rosalind Plowright, Angela Bostock, Glenn McKeown, Giuseppe Bardari, Tom Hammond, Alan...

In Tamerlano, Handel defied rules both written and tacit—offering a main role to a mature tenor at a time when the castrato voice dominated;...

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The...

The story of a Chinese-trained opera singer living in a remote Kazakh village with her grandmother and her ailing young niece. The bulk of the action...

The musical pig in quest for a friend. It eventually finds one, but at what cost...

Under the most complicated circumstances, when the world seems impossibly dark, a woman takes her life into her own hands. She risks everything to...

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...

The moon landing is juxtaposed to Dante and Beatrice's journey through paradise in this visual oratorio composed by Jacob ter Veldhuis.

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....

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. In Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy at the Gran Teatre...

La traviata, an opera in three acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, was staged at the Teatro del Libertador in...

The owner of a dangerous music venue discusses and showcases his work in a news report from a culturally dystopian future.

Puccini’s bittersweet love story returns to cinemas, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan...