Opera Movies, Movies about Opera

Here we've displayed a list of the best Opera films : Farewell My Concubine(1993), A Night at the Opera(1935), Gaslight(1944), Everybody's Fine(1990), And the Ship Sails On(1983), Topsy-Turvy(1999), Maytime(1937), Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words(2017), Diva(1981), The Music Teacher(1988), Torrent(1926), Farinelli: Il Castrato(1994) ... ...

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Farewell My Concubine

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

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A Night at the Opera

A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

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Gaslight

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.

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Everybody's Fine

Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.

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And the Ship Sails On

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.

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Topsy-Turvy

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

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Maytime

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

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Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words

An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words.

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Diva

Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller.

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The Music Teacher

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on ... See full summary »

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Torrent

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After... See full summary »

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Farinelli: Il Castrato

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.

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Quartet

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.

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Swiss Miss

Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls... See full summary »

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Metropolitan

Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

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Luxury Liner

A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.

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The Great Caruso

This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso... See full summary »

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The Phantom of the Opera

An acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.

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The Cat and the Fiddle

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

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Wife, Husband and Friend

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

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Interlude in Prague

The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.

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I Loved a Woman

Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals ... See full summary »

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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.

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Aria

Ten short films by ten different directors with nearly no speech but set to arias by different composers.

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The Glass Mountain

1648. French people are relieved: the Thirty Years War is over and they will be able to live in peace. This feeling is shared by General Cadeau, the hero of the war, and his loyal aide, ... See full summary »

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Tonight We Sing

Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.

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Stingaree

A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.

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Svengali

The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.

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The Phantom of the Opera

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.

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