Movies: Opera live performance

LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015....

"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...

Live performance from Teatro La Fenice, 29 Nov. 2013....

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015....

A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona....

Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989...

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack...

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, an...

Live performance from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, February 25 2016....

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s during a time of war between the Turks and Venetians, the work was commissioned by the Teatro di San Ca...

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002....

Part of Tutto Verdi series - La Traviata (2007) Parma. 'La traviata' ('The Fallen Woman') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on 'La dame aux Camélias' (1852), a play adapted fr...

Live performance from the Teatro Comunale di Modena...