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1	The Phantom of the Opera (2004) more movies like this directed by Joel Schumacher featuring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver One of the most popular stage musicals in the history of Broadway and London's West End makes its long-awaited arrival on the motion-picture screen in this lavish adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher. Christine (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful and gifted young woman who longs to join the company of the Paris Opera House. During rehearsals for one of ... see all copies from $3.68! new only from $6.20!
2	Carmen Jones (1954) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones, tempestuous employee of a parachute factory. Harry ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $6.53!
3	Porgy And Bess (1993) more movies like this directed by Trevor Nunn Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1993 production of Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin's classic fable of the tragic love affair between crippled Porgy (Willard White) and beautiful but troubled Bess (Cynthia Haymon) was widely acclaimed as one of the definitive stagings of one of America's best-known operas. Nunn restaged his production for a television ... see all copies from $16.99! new only from $20.57!
4	La Traviata (1983) more movies like this directed by Franco Zeffirelli featuring Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Alan Monk, Axelle Gall Tenor Plácido Domingo and soprano Teresa Stratas star in director Franco Zeffirelli's lushly cinematic version of Verdi's opera La Traviata ("The Woman Gone Astray"), a story of doomed love in 1840s Paris. Violetta (Stratas), who is the mistress of a wealthy baron, hosts a lavish party to celebrate her improved health after a bout with ... see all copies from $19.05!
5	The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) more movies like this directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell featuring Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Robert Helpmann, Pamela Brown, Frederick Ashton Most baby-boomers are familiar with the Powell-Pressburger production of the Offenbach opera Tales of Hoffman only through the full-color stills from the film which were reproduced in the "Motion Picture" section of The World Book Encyclopedia. If this is your only memory of the film, we advise you to seek out a videotaped copy of this lengthy but ... see all copies from $3.74! new only from $32.47!
6	The Magic Flute (1975) more movies like this directed by Ingmar Bergman featuring Josef Kostlinger, Irma Urrila, Ulrik Gold, Erik Saeden, Birgit Nordin, Håkan Hagegård A longtime pet project of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute was finally brought to the screen in 1973. While the opera itself is offered in a highly stylized and theatrical fashion, the fluidity of the camerawork turns the affair into a purely cinematic experience. Sung in Swedish, the libretto ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $9.78!
7	Aria (1988) more movies like this directed by Bill Bryden, Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman featuring Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Buck Henry, Jackson Kyle, Julie Hagerty, Marianne McLoughlin, Marion Peterson, Tilda Swinton An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising body-builders, to the more literal approach of Franc Roddam, ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $7.49!
8	Don Giovanni (1980) more movies like this directed by Joseph Losey featuring Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Edda Moser, Teresa Berganza, John Macurdy, Kenneth Riegel Joseph Losey's 1979 film adaptation of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni adheres faithfully to the original Lorenzo Da Ponte libretto, with rakish Don Giovanni (Ruggero Raimondi) putting the make on the aristocratic Dona Anna (Edda Moser). Giovanni's enemies warn him that he'll suffer mightily for his amorous escapades. And when the gates of hell open ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $16.22!
9	Tosca (2002) more movies like this directed by Benoît Jacquot featuring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagana, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi, Sorin Coliban The tragedy of Puccini's heartbreaking romance comes to life on stage in this production starring Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, and Ruggero Raimondi and directed by Beniot Jacquot. The Royal Opera House - Covent Garden performs Puccini's timeless score as Antonio Pappano conducts. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide see all copies from $14.83! new only from $19.59!
10	The Beggar's Opera (1984) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Miller Dr. Jonathan Miller, onetime Beyond the Fringe trouper, who was one of the leading lights of the PBS Shakespeare productions of 1978-83, serves as director of The Beggar's Opera. This adaptation of John Gay's lusty 18th-century "play with song" stars The Who's Roger Daltrey as robber captain MacHearh. Stratford Johns co-stars as Peachum, king of ... see all copies from $17.67!
11 view cover	Otello (1986) more movies like this directed by Franco Zeffirelli featuring Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Urbano Barberini Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined Zeffirelli's 1976 La Scala staging (production on the film was briefly interrupted while Domingo participated in ... see all copies from $3.25! new only from $4.78!
12 view cover	Madame Butterfly (1995) more movies like this directed by Frederic Mitterrand featuring Huang Yiqun, Jing Ma Fan, Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan Puccini's classic opera of a trusting woman and how her love was tragically betrayed comes to the screen in this faithful film adaptation. In the 19th century, an American sailor named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton (Richard Troxell) arrives in Japan and meets a 15-year-old girl named Cio-Cio-San (Ying Huang), whom he calls Butterfly. Butterfly falls ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $12.61!
13 view cover	Death in Venice (1981) more movies like this directed by Tony Palmer Tony Palmer directs this film version of Benjamin Britten's opera Death in Venice, based on the 1912 novella by Thomas Mann. Robert Gard plays Gustav von Aschenbach, a troubled writer who travels from Munich to Venice. While he struggles with his own personal pain, he becomes obsessed with a handsome youn boy named Tadzio. Music is provided by the ... see all copies from $24.44!
14 view cover	Ave Maria (1936) more movies like this directed by Johannes Riemann featuring Beniamino Gigli, Kaethe von Nagy, Paul Henckels, Harald Paulsen, Erna Berger Ave Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mourning the loss of the only woman he ever loved, concert singer Tino Dossi (Gigli) is temporarily shaken from his doldrums by vivacious Montmartre entertainer Claudette (Kaethe Von Nagy). Dossi doesn't realize that Claudette is merely using him to ... see all copies from $25.26! new only from $25.26!
15 view cover	King Priam (1985) more movies like this The Kent Opera company presents the Legend of Troy in all its splendor in this filmed production of Michael Tippett's words and music. Conducted by Roger Norrington. Rodney Macann, Sarah Walker, Howard Haskin, and Anne Mason star. Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide see all copies from $25.46! new only from $25.46!
16 view cover	Parsifal (1982) more movies like this directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg featuring Armin Jordan, Wolfgang Schöne, Martin Sperr, Hans Tschammer, Robert Lloyd This is a four-hour film performance of Wagner's opera "Parsifal" - about the legend of the Holy Grail (the chalice from which Christ drank at the Last Supper) and the Sacred Spear used by Longinus to pierce the side of Christ. In the opera both of these revered objects were brought down from Heaven and installed in a magic temple on a sacred ... see all copies from $17.25! new only from $28.12!
17 view cover	Ernani (1982) more movies like this A filmed version of the Verdi opera, Ernani is set in 1519 and concerns Ernani, an outlawed nobleman who is heading a resistance effort against the villainous kin, Don Carlo, who killed Ernani's father. The rebel also is planning to elope with his beloved, Elvira, who is about to be forced to marry her uncle Silva. Unfortunately, Don Carlo also ... see all copies from $7.45! new only from $7.45!
18 view cover	Katerina Izmailova (1966) more movies like this directed by Mikhail Shapiro featuring Galina Vishnevskaya, Artem Inozemtsev, Nikolai Boyarsky, Alexandr Sokolov, Tatyana Gavrilova Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her father-in-law. She and her new beau are both sent to Siberia, where the lover almost immediately takes up with a ... see all copies from $26.19! new only from $26.41!
19 view cover	U-Carmen (2007) more movies like this directed by Mark Dornford-May featuring Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Zweilungile Sidloyi, Andiswa Kedama, Bulewa Cosa Bizet's Carmen gets a cultural transplant as director Mark Dornford-May transports the events of the tragic opera to South Africa in this musical concerning a seductive cigarette-factory worker and her attempts to romance a policeman already set to marry another woman. Originally mounted on-stage by the innovative Dornford-May, this version of ... see all copies from $17.62! new only from $17.62!
20 view cover	The Medium (1951) more movies like this directed by Gian Carlo Menotti featuring Marie Powers, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Leo Coleman, Belva Kibler, Beverly Dame Filmed opera can be deadly if not done right; fortunately, The Medium is in the loving and capable directorial hands of the man who wrote the piece, Gian-Carlo Menotti. Slightly expanded from the one-act stage version, this is the story of fraudulent medium Marie Powers, whose mute and crippled son Leo Coleman helps to fleece her customers. During ... see all copies from $16.56! new only from $28.57!
21 view cover	Carmen (1970) more movies like this directed by Herbert von Karajan featuring Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Justino Diaz, Mirella Freni The Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Chorus combine to present this color-filmed version of the opera "Carmen." Film director Herbert von Karajan also serves as the conductor. Musically the version is good but often is plagued by uneven choreography. Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide see all copies from $10.64!
22 view cover	Prince Igor (1969) more movies like this directed by Roman Tikhomirov featuring Boris Khmelnitsky, Nelly Pshennaya, Boris Tokarev, Alexandr Slastin, Bimbulat Vataev Russian composer Alexandre Borodin (1833-1887) spent nearly two decades working intermittently on the music and libretto of Prince Igor, but he left the opera unfinished at his death. Acquaintances Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov completed it, and the opera debuted in St. Petersburg in 1890. Through rousing patriotic music flavored ... see all copies from $4.11! new only from $14.95!
23 view cover	The Charm of La Boheme (1936) more movies like this directed by Geza von Bolvary featuring Jan Kiepura, Marta Eggerth, Paul Kemp, Theo Lingen, Oska Sima Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth, a pair of gifted opera singers who were also husband and wife, were at the height of their fame in 1936 when they starred in this Viennese screen musical. Denise (Eggerth) is an aspiring singer whose audition for a production of La Bohème strongly impresses Rene (Kiepura), another performer hoping to land a role in ... see all copies from $12.49! new only from $17.03!
24 view cover	Julius Caesar (1979) more movies like this directed by Hans Krenitz William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar has been translated to film on several occasions. This German TV production isn't one of those adaptations. Rather, it is a full-bodied staging of the opera version Julius Caesar by George Frederick Handl. Theo Adam sings the title role, while Celestina Casapietra appears as Calpurnia. At a mere ... see all copies from $6.94!
25 view cover	Tsarskaya Nevesta (1966) more movies like this directed by Vladimir Gorikker featuring Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Natalya Rudnaya, Otar Koberidze, George Shevtsov, Vladimir Zeldin The Tsar's Bride is a cinemadaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Tsarskaya Nevesta, itself based on a play by Lev Aleksandrovich May. The plot involves the efforts of a beautiful aristocrat to avoid an arranged marriage with the despotic Ivan the Terrible. The Tsar's bodyguard, in love with the girl, conspires with a German scientist to ply the ... see all copies from $9.97!

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