Opera Live Performance Movies
- 2007
Der Rosenkavalier
Der Rosenkavalier02007HD
The Semperoper caused a sensation in November 2007 when it visited Japan for the first time in twenty-six years. The demand for tickets and the...
- 1987
William Tell
William Tell01987HD
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid)...
- 2009
Carmen
Carmen02009HD
Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .
- 1987
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail3.81987HD
Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the...
- 2015
Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 2015
Carmen aux Chorégies d'Orange 201502015HD
Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.
- 2005
Les Paladins
Les Paladins22005HD
"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work,...
- 2002
Carmen
Carmen02002HD
David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe...
- 1996
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte01996HD
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.
- 1996
Lulu
Lulu7.21996HD
Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make...
- 1996
Verdi: Don Carlos
Verdi: Don Carlos9.21996HD
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...
- 2007
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini72007HD
Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love for Teresa, daughter of the Papal Treasurer Balducci....
- 1984
Bluebeard
Bluebeard01984HD
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next one. But Barbe-Bleue falls in love with Hermia...
- 2000
Tosca
Tosca02000HD
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...
- 2015
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle52015HD
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind...
- 1980
Don Carlo
Don Carlo01980HD
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish...
- 1983
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut71983HD
"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the...
- 1980
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria01980HD
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi...
- 2008
Massenet: Thaïs
Massenet: Thaïs02008HD
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...
- 1985
Cardillac
Cardillac01985HD
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and...
- 2009
The Tsarina's Slippers
The Tsarina's Slippers02009HD
Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.