Opera Collection

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1. L'Orfeo (1978)

102 min | Music, Drama

This opera tells the fable of Orpheus, a demigod with a talent for music. When his bride Eurydice dies, he decides to seek her soul in the Underworld. However, things will not be so easier than he initially thinks.

Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle | Stars: Philippe Huttenlocher, Dietlinde Turban, Rachel Yakar, Trudeliese Schmidt

Votes: 60

2. L'orfeo: Favola in musica by Claudio Monteverdi (2002 TV Movie)

140 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

Opera in five acts. At the Court of Gonzaga, La Musica, with her golden zither, sings the tragic tale of Orpheus, the legendary musician who witnessed twice the death of his beloved bride Euridice.

Director: Brian Large | Stars: Montserrat Figueras, Furio Zanasi, Arianna Savall, Sara Mingardo

Votes: 49

4. L'Orfeo, Favola in musica in un prologo e cinque atti (2009 Video)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Musical

The Mantua Orfeo is the culmination of a long process that saw the gradual acceptance of pastoral fables, comedies, and tragedies in imitation of classical models, offering special musical ... See full summary »

Director: Matteo Ricchetti | Stars: Dietrich Henschel, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Sonia Prina, Luigi De Donato

14. Atys (2011 TV Movie)

Fantasy, Music, Romance

Atys is a 'tragédie en musique' in a prelude and five acts. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, January 10, 1676. Although this opera was met with indifference by ... See full summary »

Director: François Roussillon | Stars: Bernard Richter, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Emmanuelle de Négri, Nicolas Rivenq

Votes: 13

18. The fairy queen (La reine des fées) (1989 TV Movie)

Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Director: Yvon Gérault | Stars: Paul Greenwood, David Killick, Sylvestra Le Touzel, John Elmes

Votes: 14

19. The Fairy Queen (2009 TV Movie)

210 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

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Director: François Roussillon | Stars: William Christie, Miriam Allan, Lucy Crowe, Claire Debono

Votes: 8

21. Rinaldo (2001 TV Movie)

163 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

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Director: Brian Large | Stars: David Walker, Deborah York, David Daniels, Axel Köhler

Votes: 33

26. Julius Caesar (1984 TV Movie)

181 min | Drama, History, Music

Cleopatra and Ptolemy vie to become monarch of Egypt, while Caesar and Cleopatra fall in love and Ptolemy attempts to kill Caesar. Pompey's widow is wooed and imprisoned by Ptolemy and Achilla, and his son Sexto wants to kill them.

Director: John Michael Phillips | Stars: Janet Baker, Valerie Masterson, Sarah Walker, Della Jones

Votes: 34

29. Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2012 TV Movie)

249 min | Drama, Musical

This "dynamite new production" (Opera Today) of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto inaugurated Cecilia Bartoli's first season as Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012. "... See full summary »

Director: Olivier Simonnet | Stars: Andreas Scholl, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Philippe Jaroussky

Votes: 10

33. Alcina (1990 TV Movie)

Drama, Fantasy, Music

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Director: Michel Dami | Stars: Arleen Augér, Della Jones, Donna Brown, Kathleen Kuhlmann

Votes: 10

35. The Beggar's Opera (1953)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, History, Musical

When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash.

Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge

Votes: 395

36. The Beggar's Opera (1983 TV Movie)

135 min | Crime, Musical

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television. With its story of a condemned highwayman, it brings to life the greed, lust and corruption of low-life London.

Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Graham Crowden, Stratford Johns, Gary Tibbs

Votes: 65

41. Ariodante (1996 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 178 min | Music

On 8th January 1735 at the Covent Garden in London, Georg Friederich Handel presented his new opera Ariodante on a libretto by Antonio Salvi adapted by Paolo Rolli and inspired by Ariosto. ... See full summary »

Director: Kriss Russman | Stars: Gwynne Howell, Joan Rodgers, Ann Murray, Paul Nilon

Votes: 20

48. Hercules (2005 TV Movie)

Unrated | 190 min | Drama, Musical

As the first collaboration ever between conductor William Christie and director Luc Bondy, this production of Hercules was the major event of the 2004 opera season. Originally Created in ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Batallion | Stars: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Ingela Bohlin, Joyce DiDonato

Votes: 58

49. Semele (2007 TV Movie)

155 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

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Director: Felix Breisach | Stars: William Christie, Cecilia Bartoli, Charles Workman, Birgit Remmert

Votes: 14

52. Theodora (1996 TV Movie)

208 min | Drama, Music

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Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Frode Olsen, David Daniels, Richard Croft, Dawn Upshaw

Votes: 43

53. Les Paladins (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 204 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new ... See full summary »

Director: François Roussillon | Stars: Topi Lehtipuu, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Sandrine Piau, Laurent Naouri

Votes: 41

54. Orfeo ed Euridice (1982 TV Movie)

130 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

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Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: Janet Baker, Elisabeth Speiser, Elizabeth Gale

Votes: 23

57. Les Boréades (2003 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

The mythical tale of a young queen, Alphise, determined to abdicate rather than contemplate an enforced marriage to a descendant of Boréas is nothing less than extremely highly charged.

Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Barbara Bonney, Anna Maria Panzarella, Jaël Azzaretti, Paul Agnew

Votes: 30

70. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode: Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (2011)

Not Rated | Musical

Iphigenie, banished daughter of Klytemnaestra, is now high priestess to Diana. Two strangers from Greece wash up on shore; when Iphigenie recognizes one as her brother, Orestes, she is ... See full summary »

Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Susan Graham, Natalie Dessay, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves

Votes: 17

72. The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode: Idomeneo (1982)

183 min | Musical

Returning home from the Trojan Wars during a storm, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, vows to sacrifice to Neptune (the Greek god Poseidon) the first living creature he meets ashore in return ... See full summary »

Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica von Stade, Loretta Di Franco, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David

Votes: 38

75. Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1980 TV Movie)

147 min | Drama, Music

Production of Mozart's opera about the Spanish nobleman who seeks to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the hands of the Pasha.

Director: Karlheinz Hundorf | Stars: Thomas Holtzmann, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Reri Grist

Votes: 27

76. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2016 TV Movie)

168 min | Music

Kostanze and 2 servants are captive of the Pasha, with Osmin as overseer. Pasha resists taking Kostanze by force. Belmonte nearly retrieves the captives. When Pasha learns Belmonte's father exiled Pasha from his homeland, things look dire.

Director: François Roussillon | Stars: Robin Ticciati, Sally Matthews, Edgaras Montvidas, Tobias Kehrer

Votes: 8

85. Tarare (1988 TV Movie)

183 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

TARARE is an opera in five acts composed by Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825) to a French libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was performed for first time by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 8 June 1787.

Director: Claus Viller | Stars: Klaus Kirchner, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Howard Crook, Nannu Niemelä

Votes: 19

86. Mozart's Don Giovanni (1955 TV Movie)

170 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra performing Mozart's famous opera.

Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Cesare Siepi

Votes: 103

91. Don Giovanni (1978 TV Movie)

175 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Benjamin Luxon, Stafford Dean, Leo Goeke, Rachel Yakar

Votes: 9

92. Don Giovanni (1979)

176 min | Drama, Music

Mozart's opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna's father. He is then chased by Donna Anna's fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa

Votes: 1,317

93. Don Giovanni (II) (1987 TV Movie)

191 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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Director: Claus Viller | Stars: Samuel Ramey, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Gösta Winbergh, Paata Burchuladze

Votes: 66

94. Don Giovanni (1990 TV Movie)

Drama, Music

The utterly amazing Mozart opera, set in modern Harlem. Utilized twin brothers to sing Leporello and Giovanni.

Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Herbert Perry, Eugene Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Votes: 54

96. Don Giovanni (2000 TV Movie)

Music

Don Giovanni is the man every woman wants, and every man wants to be. But when he commits murder in his pursuit of women and pleasure, and later insults the statue of the man he killed, there is Hell to pay.

Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Paul Groves, Solveig Kringelborn

Votes: 49

97. Don Giovanni (2003 TV Movie)

160 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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Director: Vincent Batallion | Stars: Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Nathan Berg, Mark Padmore

Votes: 21

99. Don Giovanni (2010 TV Movie)

G | 173 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Maniura | Stars: Gerald Finley, Anna Samuil, Kate Royal, Luca Pisaroni



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