Movies: Opera live performance
- 1998
Notre Dame de Paris (1998)
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A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus....
- 2007
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (2007)
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The pain of unrequited love is portrayed unforgettably by two of today’s greatest stars. Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who falls in love with the worldly Onegin, played with devastating charisma by Dmitri Hvo...
- 2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015)
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Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her...
- 2009
Rossini: La Cenerentola (2009)
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"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful Metropolitan Opera production. "As close to pure joy as you will find in a big-time opera house" (New Yorker), conquering audiences and cr...
- 2002
Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
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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 ...
- 2013
Les Vêpres siciliennes (2013)
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The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She turns to the partisan Jean Procida and the rebellious patriot Henri in her bid for vengeance. Les Vêpres siciliennes ...
- 1992
The Ghosts of Versailles (1992)
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What happened to Figaro and his friends after the events told in Rossini’s and Mozart’s operas? One possible sequel is told in John Corigliano’s “grand opera buffa” The Ghosts of Versailles—an uproariously funny and deeply moving work inspired by Bea...
- 2018
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
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The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recording artists, set during the last week of Jesus' life as he deals with betrayal, love and jealousy, and told from the perspective of Judas....
- 2015
Puccini Manon Lescaut (2015)
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The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury....
- 1996
Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)
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Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an all-star cast, loaded with important singers either starting their careers (Roberto Alagna) or at the he...
- 2024
Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier (2024)
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At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalen...
- 1989
Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala) (1989)
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Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989...
- 2008
Massenet: Thaïs (2008)
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When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a d...
- 1983
Rossini: La Cenerentola (1983)
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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,...
- 2001
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House) (2001)
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Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for television and video by Brian Large....
- 1980
Un Ballo in Maschera (1980)
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Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden....
- 2009
The Tsarina's Slippers (2009)
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Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009....
- 2018
Verdi: Attila (2018)
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First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of La Scala on December 7th. Following the inauguration of the 2015-2016 Season with Giovanna d’Arco and in anticipation of Macbeth, with Attila Musical D...
- 2005
Un Ballo in Maschera (2005)
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Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005....
- 1982
Idomeneo (1982)
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Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of Crete -- swears to Neptune that if the monarch survives, he'll sacrifice the first person he encounter...