Opera Live Performance Movies

  • 1989
    Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)

    Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)

    Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)

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    Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989

    Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

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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...

    Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier
  • 2006
    Carmen

    Carmen

    Carmen

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    Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don...

    Carmen
  • 2008
    Strauss: Salome

    Strauss: Salome

    Strauss: Salome

    02008HD

    It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time,...

    Strauss: Salome
  • 2015
    Puccini Manon Lescaut

    Puccini Manon Lescaut

    Puccini Manon Lescaut

    102015HD

    The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.

    Puccini Manon Lescaut
  • 2015
    Carmen

    Carmen

    Carmen

    02015HD

    Live performance from Taormina Opera Festival, July 15, 2015.

    Carmen
  • 2005
    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

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    Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta...

    The Merry Widow
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

    72025HD

    Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Salome
  • 2008
    Massenet: Thaïs

    Massenet: Thaïs

    Massenet: Thaïs

    02008HD

    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...

    Massenet: Thaïs
  • 1997
    Le Comte Ory

    Le Comte Ory

    Le Comte Ory

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    Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity.

    Le Comte Ory
  • 1996
    Così fan tutte

    Così fan tutte

    Così fan tutte

    01996HD

    Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.

    Così fan tutte
  • 1984
    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

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    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...

    Bluebeard
  • 2007
    Verdi: La Traviata

    Verdi: La Traviata

    Verdi: La Traviata

    5.22007HD

    Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society,...

    Verdi: La Traviata
  • 2002
    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona

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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...

    Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona
  • 2000
    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tosca

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    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...

    Tosca
  • 2005
    Les Paladins

    Les Paladins

    Les Paladins

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    Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work,...

    Les Paladins
  • 1981
    H.M.S. Pinafore

    H.M.S. Pinafore

    H.M.S. Pinafore

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    Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to...

    H.M.S. Pinafore
  • 1990
    I vespri Siciliani

    I vespri Siciliani

    I vespri Siciliani

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    The story revolves around a Sicilian rebellion against the French, fueled by themes of oppression, freedom, and the personal costs of conflict. The...

    I vespri Siciliani
  • 1988
    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos

    Ariadne auf Naxos

    01988HD

    Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James...

    Ariadne auf Naxos
  • 1985
    Aida

    Aida

    Aida

    01985HD

    This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to opera. Aida is the role that inspired...

    Aida