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1. Parsifal (1982)
PG | 255 min | Drama, Music
Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd, Michael Kutter
Votes: 334
2. Moses und Aron (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Music, Drama
In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in extravagantly choreographed song and dance - towards chaos and sin.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas
Votes: 509
3. Der Rosenkavalier (1961 TV Movie)
192 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An opera about jealousy and duplicity among the elite classes of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Otto Edelmann, Sena Jurinac, Erich Kunz
Votes: 111
4. Fidelio (1978 TV Movie)
147 min | Drama, Musical
Leonore dresses up as a man and becomes the gaoler's assistant to free her unjustly imprisoned husband. The gaoler's daughter Marcelline quickly falls in love with her, while Marcelline's admirer Jaquino becomes intensely jealous.
Director: Otto Schenk | Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Votes: 24
5. Elektra (1981)
118 min | Drama, Music
Richard Strauss' classic opera version of the ancient Greek tragedy about the princess Elektra, who dreams of avenging her father Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover.
Director: Götz Friedrich | Stars: Leonie Rysanek, Astrid Varnay, Catarina Ligendza, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Votes: 90
6. Wagner's Dream (2012)
115 min | Documentary
Director: Susan Froemke | Stars: Carl Fillion, Peter Gelb, Jessica Krueger, Robert Lepage
Votes: 86
7. From Today Until Tomorrow (1997)
Not Rated | 62 min | Music, Comedy
It is late at night and a married couple has just returned home from a party, where they met a former school friend of the wife and a famous singer. The husband has been charmed by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Richard Salter, Christine Whittlesey, Annabelle Hahn, Claudia Barainsky
Votes: 174
8. Der Rosenkavalier (I) (1994 TV Movie)
193 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Carlos Kleiber, Felicity Lott, Kurt Moll, Anne Sofie von Otter
Votes: 45
9. Tristan und Isolde, Azione in tre atti (2007 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Patrizia Carmine | Stars: Ian Storey, Waltraud Meier, Matti Salminen, Gerd Grochowski
Votes: 27 | Gross: $0.05M
10. Die tote Stadt (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 151 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
Director Pier Luigi Pizzi drew inspiration from Georges Rodenbach's short novel, "Bruges - La Morte" which narrates the bizarre and sinister experience of a man who, having lost his wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Hannu Kamppila | Stars: Markus Eiche, Mikko Franck, Melis Jaatinen, Antti Nieminen
11. Salome (1997 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Hans Hulscher | Stars: Catherine Malfitano, Bryn Terfel, Kenneth Riegel, Anja Silja
Votes: 37
12. Hans Werner Henze: L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2003 TV Movie)
143 min | Music, Drama
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Laura Aikin, John Mark Ainsley, Alfred Muff, Hanna Schwarz
Votes: 11
13. Salome (2012)
Drama, Music
Stars: Garrett Sorenson, Elizabeth DeShong, Andrew Funk, Bojan Knezevic
Votes: 10
14. Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (2021 TV Movie)
143 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Myriam Hoyer | Stars: Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen, Andrei Filonczyk, Jennifer Johnston
Votes: 5
15. Elektra (1989 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama, Music
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Éva Marton, Cheryl Studer, Brigitte Fassbaender, James King
Votes: 29
16. Der Rosenkavalier (1998 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Elisabetta Brusa | Stars: Elizabeth Whitehouse, Ildikó Komlósi, Désirée Rancatore, Daniel Lewis Williams
Votes: 11
17. Hänsel und Gretel (2015)
115 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Agnes Méth | Stars: Adrian Eröd, Janina Baechle, Daniela Sindram, Ileana Tonca
Votes: 6
18. Der Rosenkavalier (1979 TV Movie)
186 min | Comedy, Romance, Music
Director: Karlheinz Hundorf | Stars: Gwyneth Jones, Manfred Jungwirth, Brigitte Fassbaender, Benno Kusche
Votes: 24
19. Der Rosenkavalier (2009 TV Movie)
211 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch, Diana Damrau, Franz Hawlata
Votes: 17
20. The Magic Flute (II) (2000 TV Movie)
151 min | Music, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Alf Bernhard-Leonardi | Stars: Kenneth Roberson, Guido Götzen, Peter Keller, Jacob Will
Votes: 17
21. Die tote Stadt (2011 Video)
Not Rated | 148 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Director Pier Luigi Pizzi drew inspiration from Georges Rodenbach's short novel, "Bruges - La Morte" which narrates the bizarre and sinister experience of a man who, having lost his wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Davide Mancini | Stars: Stefan Vinke, Solveig Kringelborn, Stephan Genz, Christa Mayer
22. Das Christelflein (1955 TV Movie)
Musical
Director: Herbert Junkers | Stars: Anneliese Rothenberger, Theodor Schlott, Gertraude Schönrock, Hans-Herbert Fiedler
23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Flûte enchantée/The Magic Flute (2013 TV Movie)
163 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Olivier Simonnet | Stars: Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Pavol Breslik
24. Fierrabras (2007 TV Movie)
171 min | Drama, Music
The Frankish knight Roland captures Fierrabras, son of the Prince of the Moors, and out of chivalry has King Karl spare him. Karl remands Fierrabras to Roland's custody, and they become ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: László Polgár, Juliane Banse, Michael Volle, Christoph Strehl
25. Im Olymp der Kunst (2013 TV Movie)
45 min | History, Music
Director: Astrid Bscher | Stars: Rainer Bock, Alexander Beyer, Klaus Bachler, Inge Borkh
26. Alfonso und Estrella (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 132 min | Music, Drama
Most of Schubert's operas were written without a specific commission, in the hope that, once completed, some theatre might find them interesting simply by virtue of their musical value. ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Scalfi | Stars: Eva Mei, Rainer Trost, Markus Werba, Jochen Schmeckenbecher
27. Julie (2005 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Musical
Philippe Boesmans sign his fourth opera with Julie. Harking back to the model of the chamber opera, the composer focused on the chemistry of human relationships that lead heroine of the ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Batallion | Stars: Malena Ernman, Garry Magee, Kerstin Avemo, Orchestre de chambre de la Monnaie
28. Arabella (2014 TV Movie)
178 min | Musical, Romance
The opera takes place in a operetta-like milieu in Vienna in the 1860s. Protagonists are an impoverished noble family and their daughters of marriageable age, Arabella and Zdenka, as well ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Benacková
Votes: 7
29. 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
30. Elektra (I) (2010 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Andreas Morell | Stars: Albert Dohmen, Jane Henschel, René Kollo, Manuela Uhl
31. Rienzi (2012 TV Movie)
231 min | Drama, Musical
Directors: Denis Caïozzi, Jorge Lavelli | Stars: Robert Bork, L'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Choeur du Capitole, Stefan Heidemann
Votes: 5
32. 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
33. Cardillac (2005 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Cardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of art upon the act of murder.
Director: Chloé Perlemuter | Stars: Angela Denoke, Hannah Esther Minutillo, Roland Bracht, Stephen Gadd
34. Der Prinz von Homburg (1994 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: François Le Roux, MariAnne Häggander, William Cochran, Helga Dernesch
35. Der fliegende Holländer (1975)
118 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
the story of a sinner who is condemned to sail the seas until the day of judgment, to die of thirst until his sin is redeemed by the selfless love of a woman.
Director: Václav Kaslík | Stars: Donald McIntyre, Catarina Ligendza, Bengt Rundgren, Hermann Winkler
Votes: 37
36. Parsifal (2011)
Unrated | 240 min | Music
Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross,... See full summary »
Director: Romeo Castellucci | Stars: Thomas Johannes Mayer, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Andrew Richards, Tómas Tómasson
37. Von Heute auf Morgen, Opera in un atto op. 32 (2011 Video)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Davide Mancini | Stars: Georg Nigl, Brigitte Geller, Sonia Visentin, Mathias Schulz
38. Ariadne auf Naxos (1965 TV Movie)
130 min | Music, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Erich Neuberg | Stars: Erik Frey, Paul Schöffler, Sena Jurinac, Jess Thomas
Votes: 12
39. Placido Domingo in der Staatsoper Berlin (1993 TV Special)
105 min | Documentary, Music
Director: János Darvas | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Deborah Polaski, John Tomlinson, Daniel Barenboim
40. Wozzeck (2007 Video)
129 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Pietro D'Agostino | Stars: Franz Hawlata, Reiner Goldberg, Angela Denoke, Hubert Delamboye
41. Dionysos, Szenen und Dithyramben - Eine Opernphantasie (2011 TV Movie)
Fantasy, Musical
Director: Bettina Ehrhardt | Stars: Johannes Martin Kränzle, Mojca Erdmann, Elin Rombo, Matthias Klink
42. Fidelio (1963 TV Movie)
124 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Gustav Rudolf Sellner | Stars: William Dooley, Walter Berry, James King, Christa Ludwig
43. Der Rosenkavalier (I) (2004 TV Movie)
190 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Wiener Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov, Adrianne Pieczonka, Franz Hawlata
Votes: 17
44. Die Frau ohne Schatten (2011 TV Movie)
220 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Karina Fibich | Stars: Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch
Votes: 8
45. Elektra (2005 Video)
102 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Felix Breisach | Stars: Marjana Lipovsek, Eva Johansson, Melanie Diener, Rudolf Schasching
46. L'Enlèvement au Sérail (2004 TV Movie)
128 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Don Kent | Stars: Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Malin Hartelius, Magali Léger, Matthias Klink
47. 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
48. Die tote Stadt (1983 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Brian Large | Stars: James King, Karan Armstrong, William Murray, Margit Neubauer
Votes: 14
49. Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (2012 TV Movie)
Drama, Musical
Director: Hannes Rossacher | Stars: Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Cornelia Kallisch, Renée Morloc, Gabriela Benacková
50. Parsifal (1999 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director: Horant H. Hohlfeld | Stars: Falk Struckmann, Matthias Hölle, Hans Sotin, Poul Elming
Votes: 10