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Plot Summary:
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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A production of Antonín Dvořák's opera performed by the Opéra national de Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
Country: France
Duration: 160 min
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Les Indes Galantes (2004)
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"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's extravagant, highly baroque staging presents the four exotic love stories vibrantly. In 'Le Turc généreux' Osman sets free his captive, Emilie, whom he loves, so that she may be reunited with her former lover, Valère; 'Les Incas de Pérou' is all about the rivalry of the Inca Huascar and the Spaniard Don Carlos, both in pursuit of Princess Phani; 'Les Fleurs' offers a Persian love intrigue, as the Sultana Fatime tries to detect whether her husband Tacmas has his eye on the lovely Atalide; and 'Les Sauvages' takes us to North America, where a Spaniard and a Frenchman compete for the love of Zima, daughter of a native chief, who prefers one of her own people." — from the DVD cover.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Music, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 190 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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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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Two-guys-one-girl thing in a squatted house in Geneva.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 87 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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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
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Duration: 176 min
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The Full Monteverdi follows the simultaneous break-up of six couples, from shocking revelation, vengeful anger and erotic longing for reconciliation, as an ensemble film. Vulnerable and disarming, it draws viewers into its emotional journey and intensely moving portrait of contemporary love.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, baroque
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9
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Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min
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IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
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Cavalleria Rusticana (1968)
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Film of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 46
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Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 76 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
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 54
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Country: UK
Duration: 152 min
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While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Abimelech, the Philistine satrap of Gaza, enters to mock the Hebrews' God, proclaiming the superiority of Dagon, and the Hebrews are afraid of him. But calls them to show some defiance, so Abimelech attacks Samson with his sword. Samson seizes the sword and strikes him dead. The Hebrews scatter and the High Priest of Dagon appears, cursing the Hebrews. When a messenger reports that the Hebrews are ravaging the harvest, the High Priest forms a plan to use Delilah to overcome Samson's strength. Delilah's beauty is such that Samson can't resist her for long. She begs to know the secret of his supernatural strength, but he refuses, though he says he loves her. Delilah betrays Samson by having some Philistine soldiers seize him and throw him into a prison in Gaza, where his hair is cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33
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Country: USA
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Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera's most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to highlight the savagery and excitement of Verdi's tale of misdirected revenge. Paolo Gavanelli is vocally and theatrically electrifying as the hunchback anti-hero, acclaimed soprano Christine Schaefer is his doomed daughter, and superstar tenor Marcelo Alvarez is her fickle lover. With superb playing from the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, it adds up to a thrilling Rigoletto for both opera aficionados and newcomers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
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Duration: 167 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
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Duration: 164 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
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IMDB Votes: 152
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IMDB Votes: 18
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 16
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IMDB Votes: 9
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IMDB Votes: 17
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IMDB Votes: 40
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IMDB Votes: 228
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IMDB Votes: 74
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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.
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IMDB Votes: 82
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IMDB Votes: 31
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 364
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