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1. Die Walküre (II) (2010 TV Movie)
238 min | Music
Directors: Emanuele Garofalo, Guy Cassiers | Stars: Daniel Barenboim, Susan Foster, Ivonne Fuchs, Ekaterina Gubanova
Votes: 6
2. Parsifal (2004 TV Movie)
323 min | Music
Stars: Tom Fox, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, Kent Nagano
Votes: 5
3.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
(2001)
266 min | Musical
To win Eva's hand in marriage, Walther must win First Place in the Nurnberg Singing Contest. He has a formidable opponent in stodgy old Beckmesser, but the cobbler Hans Sachs is on hand to help.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: James Levine, Ben Heppner, Karita Mattila, Jill Grove
Votes: 16
4. Das Rheingold (1992 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: John Tomlinson, Bodo Brinkmann, Kurt Schreibmayer, Graham Clark
Votes: 48
5. Karajan: the Maestro and His Festival (2017)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Hannes Michael Schalle | Star: Senta Berger
Votes: 9
6. Die Walküre (1993 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Poul Elming, Matthias Hölle, John Tomlinson, Nadine Secunde
Votes: 46
7. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2011 TV Movie)
300 min | Music
Walther von Stolzing is in love with Eva Pogner but she is set to be given as the prize for the winner of the upcoming master singer's contest.
Director: François Roussillon | Stars: Mats Almgren, Graeme Broadbent, Alasdair Elliott, Gerald Finley
Votes: 9
8. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1989 TV Special)
261 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Juan Villaescusa | Stars: Bernd Weikl, Hermann Prey, Paul Frey, Sue Patchell
Votes: 5
9.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Die Walküre
(2019)
Not Rated | Musical
The quest for the Ring continues. Siegmund and Sieglinde conceive a child. Brunnhilde defies Wotan, and is banished to a circle of fire.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Christine Goerke, Philippe Jordan, Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek
Votes: 24
10. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Not Rated | 128 min | Musical
Live performances of operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 172
11. Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980– )
Fantasy, Drama, Music
Stars: Donald McIntyre, Fritz Hübner, Hermann Becht, Ortrun Wenkel
Votes: 109
12. Parsifal (1982 TV Movie)
235 min | Fantasy, Music
Parsifal is an opera or a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Protected by his mother throughout his childhood from any contact with ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Bernd Weikl, Matti Salminen, Hans Sotin, Siegfried Jerusalem
Votes: 22
13.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
The Audition
(2008)
Not Rated | Musical
An engrossing behind-the-scenes quasi-documentary as 10 hopefuls vie for a spot on the Met's roster.
Director: Susan Froemke | Stars: Jamie Barton, Kiera Duffy, Michael Fabiano, Dísella Lárusdóttir
Votes: 46
14.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Das Rheingold
(2010)
Not Rated | 183 min | Musical
When Wotan, king of the gods, hired the Giants to build a palace, he didn't have the money to pay them. What to do? Plunder and steal: there is a Ring with limitless power, and that will be his solution. He doesn't know the Ring is cursed.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: James Levine, Deborah Voigt, Lisette Oropesa, Jennifer Johnson
Votes: 73
15. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2009 TV Movie)
274 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Falk Struckmann, Ain Anger, Adrian Eröd, Johan Botha
Votes: 8
16. Das Rheingold (2007 TV Movie)
167 min | Music
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Ilya Bannik, John Daszak, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Anna Larsson
Votes: 5
17. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1995 TV Movie)
266 min | Music
Director: Götz Friedrich | Stars: Wolfgang Brendel, Lenus Carlson, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Eva Johansson
Votes: 9
18.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Die Walküre
(2011)
Not Rated | 243 min | Musical
Ring Cycle part 2, where we learn that two of Wotan's kids are having an incestuous affair, his wife is furious, so Valkyrie Brunnhilde is sent to fix things (ie, kill them). But she lets ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Hans-Peter König, Bryn Terfel
Votes: 71
19. The Flying Dutchman (1975 TV Movie)
150 min | Music
An English-language version of Wagner's opera.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Norman Bailey, Joan Davies, Stafford Dean, Keith Erwen
Votes: 8
20. Tannhäuser (1987 TV Movie)
209 min | Drama, Music
Director: Thomas Olofsson | Stars: Gwyneth Jones, Spas Wenkoff, Hans Sotin, Bernd Weikl
Votes: 33
21. Ave Gradiva (2023)
Short, Romance
When a lonely man, a fashion photographer, meets the sweetheart of his youth, from whom he separated under the pressure of his Oedipal mother, he is attacked by fragments of past memories ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Riklis | Stars: Doron Brokman, Shira Kedem-Katzenelenbogen, Lee Malka
Votes: 7
22. Tannhäuser (1989 TV Movie)
188 min | Music, Fantasy, Drama
Tannhäuser (tenor) is sick of the sensual pleasures of the Venusberg and longs for the simple joys of earthly life. The love goddess Venus (soprano) summons a magic grotto and tempts him to... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Hans Sotin, Richard Versalle, Wolfgang Brendel, William Pell
Votes: 14
23. Das Rheingold (2006 TV Movie)
148 min | Music
The loveless pursuit of power rips the heart out of the natural world, setting in motion the chain of events that will ultimately bring about the fall of the Gods.
Stars: Sten Byriel, Christian Christiansen, Anne Margrethe Dahl, Hanne Fischer
Votes: 7
24. Das Rheingold (1990 TV Movie)
163 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
'Das Rheingold' tells the story about Alberich's theft of the gold from the Rhine, the forging of the Ring of power and sets off a cascade of events that further develop in the subsequent operas of the Ring Cycle.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Christa Ludwig
Votes: 100
25. Siegfried (1993 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Siegfried Jerusalem, Graham Clark, John Tomlinson, Günter von Kannen
Votes: 38
26. Lohengrin (1982 TV Movie)
199 min | Music
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Karan Armstrong, Elke Burkert, Elizabeth Connell, Irene Hammann
Votes: 8
27. Das Rheingold (2005 TV Movie)
151 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Director: Jonathan Haswell | Stars: Phillip Ens, Sarah Fox, Liora Grodnikaite, Jane Henschel
Votes: 8
28. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (I) (1984 TV Movie)
277 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Peter Butler | Stars: Helena Döse, Donald McIntyre, Richard Decker, Paul Frey
Votes: 6
29. Wagner: Lohengrin (2017 Video)
215 min | Music
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Piotr Beczala, Evelyn Herlitzius, Tomasz Konieczny, Anna Netrebko
Votes: 5
30. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2005 TV Movie)
267 min | Music
Director: Andy Sommer | Stars: José van Dam, Matti Salminen, Martin Zysset, Cheyne Davidson
Votes: 5
31.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Siegfried
(2011)
Not Rated | 242 min | Musical
Ring Cycle, pt 3. Years later, the twins' baby is a man; he goes forth to do manly things, like kill his guardian, slay dragons, steal the Ring and talk to animals. He finds a woman ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Renée Fleming, Mary Jo Heath, Gerhard Siegel
Votes: 58
32.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
(2012)
Not Rated | 272 min | Musical
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Hans-Peter König
Votes: 55
33.
Opéra de Monte-Carlo (2014– )
Episode:
Tannhäuser
(2017)
182 min | Musical
Director: Stéphan Aubé | Stars: Anaïs Constans, José Cura, Aude Extrémo, Steven Humes
Votes: 5
34. Die Walküre (I) (2009 TV Movie)
243 min | Music
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Peter Seiffert, Matti Salminen, Juha Uusitalo, Petra-Maria Schnitzer
Votes: 10
35. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (II) (1984 TV Movie)
282 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Bernd Weikl, Manfred Schenk, András Molnár, Martin Egel
Votes: 24
36. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1988 TV Movie)
277 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Whoever wins the singing competition, will win the fair maiden's hand in marriage. The race is on!
Directors: Peter Butler, Virginia Lumsden | Stars: Helena Döse, Donald McIntyre, Paul Frey, John Pringle
Votes: 13
37.
Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980– )
Episode:
Götterdämmerung
(1981)
250 min | Fantasy, Drama, Music
Ragnarok, in Norse mythology, refers to a war prophesied of the gods that brings with it the end of the world.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Jeannine Altmeyer, Hermann Becht, Katie Clarke, Ilse Gramatzki
Votes: 68
38.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Lohengin
(2023)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christopher Maltman, Brian Mulligan, Günther Groissböck
Votes: 8
39. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,649
40. The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
180 min | Musical
This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Chorus, James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Charles Anthony
Votes: 48
41. Die Nacht (1985)
367 min
A six hour long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche,... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Star: Edith Clever
Votes: 48
42. Kelly Country (1973)
48 min | Documentary
Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: Orson Welles, Sidney Nolan, Bill Weston
Votes: 8
43. Götterdämmerung (1992 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Siegfried Jerusalem, Bodo Brinkmann, Philip Kang, Günter von Kannen
Votes: 36
44. Tristan und Isolde (2009 TV Movie)
289 min | Music
Director: Christoph Marthaler | Stars: Robert Dean Smith, Iréne Theorin, Michelle Breedt, Robert Holl
Votes: 5
45. Wagner: Tannhäuser (2020 Video)
183 min | Music
Stars: Lise Davidsen, Markus Eiche, Stephen Gould, Stephen Milling
Votes: 5
46.
Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980– )
Episode:
Das Rheingold
(1980)
164 min | Fantasy, Drama, Music
Wotan wants to steal the gold from the Nibelungen.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Donald McIntyre, Martin Egel, Siegfried Jerusalem, Heinz Zednik
Votes: 98
47.
Der Ring des Nibelungen (1980– )
Episode:
Siegfried
(1980)
225 min | Fantasy, Drama, Music
Siegfried needs a sword to kill the dragon Fafner and get the magic ring he guards.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Manfred Jung, Heinz Zednik, Donald McIntyre, Hermann Becht
Votes: 64
48.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
(2014)
Not Rated | 309 min | Musical
Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: James Levine, Renée Fleming, Johan Botha, Annette Dasch
Votes: 21
49. Tristan und Isolde (1995 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Siegfried Jerusalem, Matthias Hölle, Waltraud Meier, Uta Priew
Votes: 22
50. Parsifal (1992 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Hans Hulscher | Stars: John Tomlinson, Waltraud Meier, Falk Struckmann, Poul Elming
Votes: 20