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Plot Summary:
Live performance by Les Arts Florissants at the Théâtre de Caen, recorded on 18 Octorber 2011. "One of the earliest operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan Hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido." — from the DVD back cover.
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Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 176 min
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Les Paladins (2005)
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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, blending reality and the surreal on several levels." — from the DVD back cover.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 204 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman (1981)
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Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival. In this production by the distinguished film director, John Schlesinger, with spectacular designs by Maria Bjornson and William Dudley, Offenbach's nightmare world is brought to life. The all-star cast is headed by Placido Domingo as Hoffmann: his three loves are Ileana Cotrubas, Anges Baltsa and Luciana Serra and the manifestations of his rival are sung by Geraint Evans, Robert Lloyd, Siegmund Nimsgern and Nicola Ghiuselev. The score, which includes such favourites as the "Barcarolle" and the "Doll's Song", is conducted by Georges Pretre.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min
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Madama Butterfly (1986)
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Opera at La Scala Milan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 142 min
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Aida (1985)
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La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger-than-life staging. The Triumph Scene in Act II is by no means Aida's only attraction, but it is the part that makes the strongest and most lasting impression and it is the visual and musical climax of this production. Stage director Luca Ronconi brings on a procession to dwarf all processions: looted treasures, heroic statuary, miserable captives struggling under the lash of whip-bearing slave drivers. On par with these visuals is Lorin Maazel's first-class performance of the popular Grand March with the outstanding La Scala chorus and orchestra. In Act III, the contrasting tranquility of the Nile Scene also gets a visual treatment to match the music's qualities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 160 min
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2000)
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Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille Delunsch, Anne Sofie Von Otter, and Sylvie Brunet star, and conductor Marc Minkowski leads the Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble. Klaus Michael Grüber directs for stage.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: baroque
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Alcina (2000)
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Handel's Alcina. Anonymous libretto, adapted from the libretto of Riccardo Broschi's "L'isola d'Alcina", based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando furioso" (uncredited).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 159 min
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Madama Butterfly (2010)
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The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor. Hear some of Puccini's most soaring and captivating music in this classic story of colliding hearts and cultures.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
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Boris Godounov (1989)
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Zulawski tackles Modest Mussorgsky’s famous opera about the bloody battle for ascendancy to the throne of Russia in the 17th-century! With a score conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, Zulawski adds extra layers of devilish meta-textual embellishment by composing the film’s imagery as though we are watching a theater piece of a film crew making a movie about the opera of “Boris Godounov”! As well, the picture is full of delightful anachronisms that mock the then-contemporary Russian government, alongside jabs at other 20th-century dictatorships. So incensed was Rostropovich by Zulawski’s juiced final product — one that took liberties with the narrative’s sexual thrust, amongst other things — that he (unsucessfully) took Zulawski to court for “the violation of the Russian soul”! “Impressive in its use of whirling camera movements as well as mega close-ups of the contracted faces of its singers, ‘Boris Godounov’ is one of the most original opera movies ever made”.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: visual, experimental, avant garde
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The Rose King (1986)
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A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house
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Stiffelio (2012)
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Part of Tutto Verdi series - Stiffelio (2012) Parma. 'Stiffelio' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel “Le pasteur d’hommes”, by Émile Souvestre, which was published in 1838. This was adapted into the French play 'Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer' by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois. That was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as 'Stifellius'; this formed the basis of Piave's libretto.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min
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Notre-Dame de Paris (1998)
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A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, compassionate, philosophical, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, tragic ending, freeze frame
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The Magic Flute (2006)
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During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, semi serious, fairy tale, epic, period drama
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Turandot (1983)
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From the world famous Arena of Verona, an international cast perform one of Puccini's best loved operas. The cruel Princess Turandot, ruler of China, will only wed a prince who can answer correctly her three riddles. Those who fail are executed. Prince Calaf, son of the exiled king of Tartary, falls in love with Turandot as soon as he sets eyes on her, and despite the protestations of his friends and family sets out to pass her test.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
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Orpheus (1978)
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Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Filmed 28 march - 20 April. Sound recorded 1 - 25 December 1977.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Music, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
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Carmen (2007)
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Georges Bizet's Carmen, filmed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, and conducted by Antonio Pappano, tells the tragic story of a soldier who falls for the sultry Carmen and abandons his career and family to be with her.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1979)
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Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Music, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 164 min
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Macbeth (1993)
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Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 149 min
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Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
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A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Musical, Music, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
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Un Ballo In Maschera (1991)
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Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine. Starring Luciano Pavarotti.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
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Rodelinda (2005)
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Live from Munich 2004.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 203 min
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Il Trovatore (2002)
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José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera IL TROVATORE, in Elijah Moshinsky's new Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, with sets by the noted film designer Dante Ferretti and costumes by Anne Tilby.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Music, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
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Rigoletto (2010)
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Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke for seducing his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, UK, France, Japan, USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min
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Othello (1992)
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The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday.. 27 October 1992. BBC 2 Television live relay.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min
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Babymother (1998)
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A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing project with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she struggles too as she learns at her mother's death that her actual mother is the woman she had thought was her older sister. With the help of a female agent, the group starts to get some exposure and rises above their setting.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
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Johanna (2005)
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Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering her body. The head doctor is frustrated by her continued rejection of him and allies himself with the outraged hospital authorities. They wage war against her but the grateful patients join forces to protect her. This is a filmic and musical interpretation of the Passion of Joan of Arc.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, experimental, offbeat, sexual, sexy
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Black Tights (1960)
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Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit: Carmen (1949), La croqueuse de diamants (1950), Deuil en 24 heures (1953), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1959).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, feel good, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Tosca (2001)
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Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexy, sexual
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Cremaster 5 (1997)
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Cremaster 5 (55 min, 1997) is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, epic, serious, surreal, stylized, sexual
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Carmen in 3D (2011)
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Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets Carmen is packed with some of the best-loved and memorable music in all of opera. In this characteristically vivid and vibrant stage production by Francesca Zambello, beautifully filmed in 3D by Julian Napier, Seville is brought to life with ranks of soldiers, crowds of peasants, gypsies and bullfighters as well as a magnificent horse, a donkey and even some chickens! This spectacular RealD and Royal Opera House production features a supremely talented cast, gripping drama and Bizets energetic and passionate score. It is truly a musical event to remember!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
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The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recording artists, set during the last week of Jesus' life as he deals with betrayal, love and jealousy, and told from the perspective of Judas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating