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Opera Videos: A Filmography

The films listed below are documentary, biographical, feature, and other performance films related to opera. The films are available in the Video Viewing Area, in the basement of Hunt Library. The material can be viewed in the Viewing Area, for educational purposes, by any holder of a current CMU photo I.D. or can be scheduled for classroom use by a faculty member. Further information on each video is available through Cameo, the on-line library catalog.

(The) Abduction from the Seraglio SEE: Die Entfuhrung...

Aida
1986 160 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, after a French prose text by Camille du Locle. La Scala production by Luca Ronconi, with Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan conducted by Lorin Maazel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48a VHS

Albert Herring
1985 145 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Benjamin Britten and text by Eric Crozier, adapted from Maupassant's "Le Rosier de Madame Husson". Glyndebourne Festival production by Peter Hall, with John Graham-Hall, Patricia Johnson, Alan Opie, and Felicity Palmer, conducted by Bernard Haitink. Sung in English.
782.10267 B86a VHS

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Brown
1979 52 min. Color
Opera in one act, with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti. Sung and acted in English by Teresa Stratas, Robert Sapolsky, Giorgio Tozzi, and Nico Castel. Ambrosian Opera Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
782.10267 M547a VHS

Andrea Chenier
1984 120 min. Color
Opera in four acts, with music by Umberto Giordano and libretto by Luigi Illica. Royal Opera production by Michael Hampe, with Placido Domingo, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, and Giorgio Zancanaro. The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Julius Rudel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 G497a VHS

(Un) Ballo in Maschera
1980 150 min. Color
Opera in three acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Antonio Somma, adapted from Scribe's libretto for the Auber opera, "Gustave III". Metropolitan Opera performance, with Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Louis Quilico, Judith Blegen, and Bianca Berini, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Giuseppe Patane. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.5 V48ba VHS

Billy Budd
1988 151 min. Color
Opera in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. English National Opera production designed by Tom Cairns and Antony McDonald and directed by Tim Alberry. The Orchestra and Chorus of the English National Opera are conducted by David Atherton. Principal performers include Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard Van Allan, and Neil Howett.
782.10267 B86b DISC

Bizet's Carmen SEE: Carmen de Bizet

(La) Boheme
Zeffirelli
1982 141 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Illica and Giacosa, based on "La Vie de Boheme" by Henri Murger. Metropolitan Opera performance, designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by James Levine, with chorus master David Stivender. Principal performers are Jose Carreras, Theresa Stratas, Richard Stilwell, Renata Scotto, James Morris, Allan Monk, and Italo Tajo. The videotape includes a twenty-minute program about Zeffirelli. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.1 P97b VHS

Carmen
1988 172 min. Color
Opera in four acts, with music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Meilhac and Halevy, after the novella by Prosper Merimee. Metropolitan Opera performance with Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras, Leona Mitchell, and Samuel Ramey. Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by James Levine. In French with English subtitles.
782.10267 B62c DISC

Carmen de Bizet
Rosi
1984 160 min. Color
Film version of the opera in four acts, with music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Meilhac and Halevy, after the novella by Prosper Merimee. Sung and acted by Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Ruggero Raimondi, and Faith Esham. L'Orchestra National de France and Choir of Radio-France are conducted by Lorin Maazel; choreography is by Antonio Gades. In French with English subtitles.
791.45 B625 VHS

(The) Cavalier of the Rose SEE: Rosenkavalier

(Les) Contes d'Hoffmann
Tooley
1980 149 min. Color
Opera in three acts with prologue and epilogue, with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Barbier and Carre, based on stories by E. T. A. Hoffman. BBC production, staged at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, produced by John Schlesinger, directed for television by Brian Large. Principal singers are Placido Domingo, Luciana Serra, Agnes Baltsa, Ileana Cotrubas, Geraint Evans and Nicola Ghiuselev. Orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House are directed by Georges Pretre. In French with English subtitles.
782.4 O32ca VHS

Cosi Fan Tutte
Sellars
1991 200 min. Color
Contemporary version of opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sung and acted by Susan Larson, Janice Felty, Frank Kelley, James Maddalena, Sue Ellen Kuzma, and Sanford Sylvan. Originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, the International Performing Arts Festival of SUNY at Purchase under the direction of Christopher Hunt. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939c DISC

(Les) Dialogues des Carmelites
Prokop
1984 155 min. Color
Opera in three acts and twelve scenes with music by Francis Poulenc and libretto by Georges Bernanos, after the novel by Gertrude von Le Fort. Filmed at the Sydney Opera House. Stars Joan Sutherland, Heather Begg, Isobel Buchanan, Lone Koppel, Geoffrey Chard, Paul Ferris, and Anne-Maree McDonald. The Australian Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Richard Bonynge, chorus master is Gordon Kember.
782.10267 P87d (2v) VHS

Don Carlo
Large
1983 214 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille Du Locle, based on the play by Friedrich Schiller. Metropolitan Opera production by John Dexter, with Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Louis Quilico, Nicolai Ghiarov, and Grace Bumbry; conducted by James Levine; chorus master is David Stivender. Includes an 8-minute intermission program, in English, about the Verdi museum at his villa, Sant'Agata. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48d (2v) VHS

Don Giovanni
Levine
1990 189 min. Color
Modern setting of the opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sung and acted by Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt, Carroll Freeman, James Patterson, Al Lan Zhu, and Elmore James. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939d DISC

Don Giovanni
Losey
1979 177 min. Color
Film version of the opera in two acts by Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after "Don Giovanni o sia Il Convitato di pietra". Directed by Joseph Losey, following a conception of Rolf Liebermann, starring Ruggero Raimondi, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, John Macurdy, Kenneth Riegel, Teresa Berganza, Jose Van Dam, and Malcom King; Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera conducted by Lorin Maazel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939da DISC

Don Giovanni
Losey
1979 177 min. Color
Film version of the opera in two acts by Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after "Don Giovanni o sia Il Convitato di pietra". Directed by Joseph Losey, following a conception of Rolf Liebermann, starring Ruggero Raimondi, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, John Macurdy, Kenneth Riegel, Teresa Berganza, Jose Van Dam, and Malcom King; Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera conducted by Lorin Maazel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M93d VHS

(Die) Dreigroschenoper
Pabst
1931 113 min. B&W
Film adaptation of the musical theatre work, with music by Kurt Weill and original play and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht (based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay); screenplay by Lania, Vajda, and Balazs; stars Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Foerster, Carola Nehr, Fritz Rasp; conducted by Theo. Mackeben. In German with English subtitles.
791.45 T531 VHS

(Die) Dreigroschenoper
Pabst
1931 113 min. B&W
Film adaptation of the musical theatre work, with music by Kurt Weill and original play and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht (based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay); screenplay by Lania, Vajda, and Balazs; stars Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Foerster, Carola Nehr, Fritz Rasp; conducted by Theo. Mackeben. In German with English subtitles.
791.45 T531a DISC

(L') Elisir d'amore
1981 132 min. Color
Opera in two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani, after Augustin-Eugene Scribe's "Le Philtre". Metropolitan Opera production by Nathaniel Merrill, with Luciano Pavarotti, Judith Blegen, Sesto Bruscantini, and Brent Ellis. Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Nicola Rescigno. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 D68e VHS

(Die) Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
1980 146 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Mozart and libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. Bavarian State Opera production by August Everding, with Thomas Holtzmann, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Reri Grist, Norbet Orth, and Martti Talvela; Choir and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera conducted by Karl Boehm. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939e VHS

Eugene Onegin
Tikhomirov
1958 106 min. Color
Film version of the Tchaikovsky opera. Sung in Russian with English subtitles. Accompanied by the soloists, corps de ballet, and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre.
782.10267 T249ea VHS

Falstaff
Large
1983 141 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Royal Opera House, Covent Garden production by Ronald Eyre. Principal performers are Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, Barbara Hendricks, Dalmacio Gonzalez, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, and Brenda Boozer, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48f VHS

Faust
Carsen
1995 163 min. Color
Opera in five acts with music by Charles Gounod and libretto by Barbier and Carre after the play by Goethe. Geneva production with the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande conducted by John Nelson with Giuseppe Sabbatini, Deborah Riedel, and Samuel Ramey. In French with English subtitles.
782.10267 G71f VHS

Fidelio
1979 130 min. Color
Opera in two acts with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven and libretto by Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner. Glyndebourne Festival production by Peter Hall. Features Elisabeth Soderstrom, Anton de Ridder, Robert Allman, Elizabeth Gale, and Ian Caley. The Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Chorus, and the London Philharmonic conducted by Bernard Haitink. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 B41f VHS

(The) Fiery Angel
Gergiev
1993 120 min. Color
Opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev. Directed by David Freeman; acted and sung by Sergei Lefierkus, Galina Gorchakova, and Konstantin Pluzhnikov. Kirov chorus and orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. In Russian with English subtitles.
792.10267 P964f DISC

(Die) Fledermaus
1985 142 min. Color
Operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss. Sydney Opera House production, directed by Anthony Besch. The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra and Australian Opera Chorus are conducted by Richard Bonynge. Principal performers are Dame Joan Sutherland, Anson Austin, Monique Brynnel, Robert Gard, and Heather Begg. In German with English subtitles.
782.1 S912f VHS

(Der) Fliegende Hollander
1985 136 min. Color
Opera in three acts, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. Bayreuther Festspiele production by Harry Kupfer, with Simon Estes, Lisbeth Balslev, and Matti Salminen. Chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele conducted by Woldemar Nelsson. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13f DISC

(The) Flying Dutchman SEE: Der Fliegende Hollander

(The) Force of Destiny SEE: Forza del...

(La) Forza del Destino
1984 178 min. Color
Opera in three acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Metropolitan Opera production by John Dexter, with Leontine Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti. Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48fo VHS

(Der) Freischutz
Schottler
1981 150 min. Color
Opera by Carl Maria Von Weber. Chorus and orchestra of the Wurttemberg State Opera conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. Performers include Catarina Ligendza, Toni Kramer, Raili Viljakainen, and Wolfram Raub. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W373f VHS

Gianni Schicchi SEE: Trittico

(The) Gondoliers
1983 154 min. Color
CBC video of the Stratford Festival production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, directed and choreographed by Brian MacDonald; musical direction by Berthold Carriere. Performers include Douglas Chamberlain, Marie Baron, John Keane, Paul Massel, Eric Donkin, and Karen Skidmore. In English.
782.10267 G466g VHS

Gotterdammerung
1980 249 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Third day of the festival drama "Der Ring des Nibelungen". Bayreuther Festspiele production by Patrice Chereau, acted and sung by Manfred Jung, Franz Mazura, Fritz Hubner, Hermann Becht, and Gwyneth Jones. Chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele conducted by Pierre Boulez.
782.10267 W13g DISC

Idomeneo
1982 185 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Mozart and libretto by Gianbattista Varesco. Metropolitan Opera Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, with Luciano Pavarotti, Ileana Cotrubas, Hildegard Behrens, Frederica von Stade, and John Alexander. Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939i (2v) VHS

Iolanthe
MacDonald
1985 138 min. Color
CBC video of the Stratford Festival production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, directed and choreographed by Brian MacDonald; musical direction and additional arrangements by Berthold Carriere. Performers include Maureen Forrestor, Eric Donkin, Marie Barron, Paul Massel, Katharina Megli, and Stephen Beamish. In English.
782.10267 S949i VHS

La Scala: A Documentary of Performances
1990 63 min. Color
Collection of excerpts from more than 20 operas performed at La Scala. Includes footage of the theatre being rebuilt after WWII bombing.
782.1 S279 VHS

Lohengrin
1986 220 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Richard Wagner. Metropolitan Opera production by August Everding, with Eva Marton, Leonie Rysanek, Peter Hofmann, Leif Roar, Anthony Raffell, and John Macurdy. Orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13L VHS

Lucia di Lammermoor
1982 139 min. Color
Opera in three acts, with music by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor". Metropolitan Opera production by Kirk Browning, with Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, and Paul Plishka. Chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Richard Bonynge. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 D68l VHS

Lucy of Lammermoor SEE: Lucia di...

Macbeth (Verdi)
1972 148 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by the composer and Francesco Maria Piave after Shakespeare's play. Glyndebourne Festival production by Michael Hadjimischev, with Kostas Paskalis, Josephine Barstow, James Morris, Ian Caley, and Keith Erwin. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48m (2v) VHS

Madama Butterfly
Bailey
1986 150 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Produced by Keita Asari, with Yasuko Hayashi, Hak-Nam Kim, Peter Dvorsky, and Giorgio Zancanaro. Orchestra and chorus of La Scala conducted by Lorin Maazel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 P97m VHS

Magic Flute SEE: Die Zauberfloete

(A) Masked Ball SEE: Ballo in Maschera

Mefistofele
Large
1989 160 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music and libretto by Arrigo Boito. Directed by Robert Carson and performed by Samuel Ramey, Gabriela Benackova, and Dennis O'Neill. Orchestra and chorus of the San Francisco Opera conducted by Maurizio Arena. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 B685m DISC

(Die) Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Wagner
1984 269 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. Bayreuther Festspiele production staged and directed by Wolfgang Wagner, with performers Bernd Weikl, Siegfried Jerusalem, Mari Anne Haggander, Hermann Prey, and Manfred Schenk. Orchestra and choir of Bayreuther Festspiele conducted by Horst Stein.
782.10267 W134m VHS

(The) Merry Widow
Lubitsch
1934 98 min. B&W
Film version of the operetta, with music by Franz Lehar and screenplay by Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson, based on the book and lyrics by Victor Leon and Leo Stein. Performed by Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Edward Everett Horton, and Una Merkel. In English.
791.45 M5732 VHS

(The) Mikado
1986 150 min. Color
Operetta with music by Arthur Sullivan and lyrics by W. S. Gilbert. The CBC videotape is of a Stratford Festival production, directed and produced by Norman Campbell and choreographed by Brian MacDonald. Principal performers are Marie Baron, Eric Donkin, Henry Ingram, and Richard McMillan. In English.
782.1 G46m VHS

(The) Mikado
Campbell
1999 150 min. Color
Operetta written by W. S. Gilbert and composed by Arthur Sullivan. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Stratford Festival of Canada. Musical direction by Berthold Carriere. With Marie Baron, Eric Donkin, Henry Ingram, Christina James, Richard McMillan, Gidon Saks, Karen Skidmore, Allen Stewart-Coates, and Karen Wood.
782.10267 S949m DVD

Nabucco
1986 140 min. Color
Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto by Temistocle Solera. Teatro alla Scala production by Roberto De Simone, with Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova, Paata Burchuladze, Bruno Beccaria, and Raquel Pierotti. Orchestra and chorus of La Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48n VHS

(Le) Nozze di Figaro
1991 183 min. Color
Modern setting of the opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Directed by Peter Sellars with Sanford Sylvan, Jeanne Ommerle, James Maddalena, Jayne West, Susan Larson, Lynn Torgove, Frank Kelly, David Evitts, Sue Ellen Kuzma, Herman Hildebrand, and Willan Cotton. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939n DISC

(Le) Nozze di Figaro
1977 184 min. Color
Opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponelle, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mirella Freni, Hermann Prey, and Maria Ewing. The Vienna Philharmonic is conducted by Karl Bohm. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 M93n DISC

(Le) Nozze di Figaro
1973 168 min. Color
Opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Glyndebourne Festival production directed by Peter Hall, with Benjamin Luxon, Kiri Te Kanawa, Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, and Frederica von Stade, with the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Pritchard. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.3 M93n4 VHS

(Le) Nozze di Figaro
1977 184 min. Color
Opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Production by Jean-Pierre Ponelle, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mirella Freni, Hermann Prey, and Maria Ewing. The Vienna Philharmonic is conducted by Karl Bohm. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.3 M93n5 VHS

Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky)
1984 90 min. Color
Opera in two acts, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by Jean Cocteau. Produced and designed by Harry Wich, with Hans Hulcher and Alan Howard, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and NOS TV's Men's Choir, conducted by Bernard Haitink.
782.10267 S916o VHS

Orfeo Ed Euridice: Royal Opera
1991 80 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline, after Raniero de Calzabigi. Directed by Harry Kupfer, sung and acted by Jochen Kawalski, Gillian Webster and Jeremy Budd. The Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Hartmut Haenchen. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 O67 DISC

Otello
1974 141 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Arrigo Bo�to, after Shakespeare's "Othello". Film version of Deutsche Oper Berlin production directed by Horant H. Hohlfeld, sung and acted by Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni and Peter Glossop. Berlin Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 V48o DISC

Otello
1982 145 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Arigo Bo�to, after Shakespeare's "Othello". Arena di Verona production directed by Gianfranco De Bosio, with Vladimir Atlantov, Kiri Te Kanawa and Piero Cappuccilli, with the Chorus, Orchestra and Corps de Ballet of the Arena di Verona, conducted by Zoltan Pesko. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.5 V48oa VHS

Otello
Zeffirelli
1986 123 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Arigo Bo�to, after Shakespeare's "Othello". Abridged film version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, sung and acted by Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli and Justino Diaz. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.5 V48ote VHS

(I) Pagliacci
1982 71 min. Color
Opera in prologue and two acts, by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Produced by Horant H. Hohlfeld, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, acted and sung by Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo, Juan Pons, Florindo Andreolli and Alberto Rinaldi, with the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Georges Pr�tre. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 L582p DISC

(I) Pagliacci
Grune
1937 79 min. B&W
Film with a plot based on the Leoncavallo opera and including several arias from the score, sung in English by tenor Richard Tauber.
791.45 P138 VHS

Pelleas et Melisande
Stein
1992 158 min. Color
Lyric drama in five acts by Claude Debussy, with libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck. Welsh National Opera production, directed by Peter Stein, sung and acted by Neill Archer, Alison Hagley and Donald Maxwell. With orchestra and chorus of the Welsh National Opera, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In French with English subtitles.
782.10267 D289p VHS

Peter Grimes
Vernon
1981 155 min. Color
Opera with prologue and three acts, with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Montagu Slater, derived from "The Borough", a poem by George Crabbe. BBC production, taped at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, directed for television by John Vernon, produced by Elijah Moshinsky, designed by Timothy O'Brian and Tazeena Firth, acted and sung by Jon Vickers, Heather Harper and Norman Bailey, with chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conducted by Colin Davis. In English.
782.1 B862p VHS

Pique Dame
Gergiev
1992 180 min. Color
Opera in three acts, with music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky. Filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg with Kirov opera, orchestra and ballet directed by Valery Gergiev, acted and sung by Gegam Grigorian, Sergei Leiferkus, Alexander Gergalov and Vladimir Solodovnikov. In Russian with English subtitles.
782.10267 T249p DISC

Porgy and Bess
1992 184 min. Color
Opera in three acts, by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Video based on original Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production, directed by Trevor Nunn. In English.
782.10267 G381p VHS

(The) Rake's Progress
1977 144 min. Color
Opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky, libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Video release of Glyndebourne Festival production, with Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke and Samuel Ramey. The London Philharmonic and the Glyndebourne Chorus conducted by Bernard Haitink. In English.
782.10267 S916r (2v.) VHS

(The) Rake's Progress
1977 146 min. Color
Opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky, libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Video release of Glyndebourne Festival production, with Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke and Samuel Ramey. The London Philharmonic and the Glyndebourne Chorus conducted by Bernard Haitink. In English.
782.10267 S916ra VHS

(Das) Rheingold
1980 164 min. Color
Opera in one act by Richard Wagner, prologue to the festival drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. Bayreuther Festspiele production by Patrice Chereau, with Donald McIntyre, Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, and Hanna Schwarz. Chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13r DISC

Ring des Nibelungen SEE: individual titles

(Der) Rosenkavalier
1985 204 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss, with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Production of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, directed for television by Brian Large; acted and sung by Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Howells, Aage Haugland and Barbara Bonney. The Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House are conducted by Georg Solti.
782.10267 S91r (2v) VHS

Salome
1974 102 min. Color
Opera in one act by Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, with German translation by Hedwig Lachmann. With Teresa Stratas, Bernd Weikl, Astrid Varnay and Hans Beirer. The Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karl B�hm. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 S91s DISC

Samson et Dalila
1989 114 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music by Camille Saint-Sa�ns and libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. San Francisco Opera production by John Goberman, with Placido Domingo, Shirley Verrett and Wolfgang Brendel. Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera conducted by Julius Rudel. In French with English subtitles.
782.10267 S152s VHS

Siegfried
1980 225 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner, second day of the festival drama Der Ring des Nibelungen. Bayreuther Festspiele production by Patrice Chereau, acted and sung by Manfred Jung, Heinz Zednik, Donald McIntyre, Hermann Becht and Gwyneth Jones. Chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13s DISC

Simon Boccanegra
1984 150 min. Color
Opera with prologue and three acts, with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito. Metropolitan Opera production by Tito Capobianco, with Sherrill Milnes, Vasile Moldoveanu, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Paul Plishka. Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267V48s (2v) VHS

(Die) Soldaten
1989 111 min. Color
Opera in four acts, with music by Bernd Alois Zimmerman, based on the stage play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Staatstheater Stuttgart production directed by Harry Kupfer, with Nancy Shade, Mark Munkittrick, Michael Ebbecke, William Cochran and Milagro Vargas. Stuttgart State Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Bernhard Kontarsky. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 Z73a VHS

Suor Angelica SEE: Trittico

(Il) Tabarro SEE: Trittico

(The) Tales of Hoffman
Powell/Pressburger
1951 127 min. Color
Screen adaptation of Offenbach's three-act opera. Screenplay by Denis Arundell, translated from the libretto by Jules Barbier. Music performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton. Cast includes Robert Rounseville, Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina, Sir Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Sir Frederick Ashton, Ann Ayars, and Pamela Brown, with additional voices by Monica Sinclair, Bruce Dargavel, and Dorothy Bond.
782.10267 O32t DISC

(The) Tales of Hoffmann SEE ALSO: Contes d'Hoffmann

Tannhauser
1982 176 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Metropolitan Opera production by Otto Schenk, with Richard Cassilly, Eva Marton, Tatiana Troyanos, Bernd Weikl and John Macurdy. Orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13t VHS

(The) Threepenny Opera SEE: Dreigroschenoper

Tosca
1985 127 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Illica and Giacosa, after the play by Victorien Sardou. Metropolitan Opera production by Franco Zeffirelli, with Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, Cornell McNeil and Italo Tajo; chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 P97t VHS

Tosca (Tebaldi)
1961 126 min. B&W
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. Music performed by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatsoper, Stuttgart, conducted by Franco Patane. With Renata Tebaldi, Eugene Tobin, Geroge London, Gustav Grefe, and Hubert Buchta. Sung in Italian, with English subtitles.
782.10267 P97ta VHS

Toscanini the Maestro
1985 74 min. Color
Hosted by James Levine. Biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini including historical footage and performances. Video also contains a 1943 performance of Verdi's "Hymn of the Nations" conducted by Toscanini, with tenor Jan Peerce.
780.92 T71 VHS

(La) Tragedie de Carmen
Brook
1983 82 min. Color
Film version of the opera by Georges Bizet, adapted by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carriere and Peter Brook. Featuring an ensemble of musicians directed by Marius Constant, acted by Helen Delavault, Howard Hensel, Agnes Host and Jake Gardner. In Spanish with English subtitles.
791.45 T765 VHS

(The) Tragedy of Carmen SEE: Tragedie...

(La) Traviata
Zeffirelli
1982 105 min. Color
Franco Zeffirelli film version of the opera in four acts with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, acted and sung by Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo and Cornell MacNeil, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by James Levine. In Italian with English subtitles.
791.45 T841 VHS

Treemonisha
Smith
1982 92 min. Color
USA. Opera in three acts by Scott Joplin. The Houston Grand Opera production is directed by Frank Corsaro, starring Obba Babatunde, Carmen Balthrop, Delores Ivory and Curtis Rayam. Orchestra and chorus of the Houston Grand Opera conducted by John DeMain. In English.
782.10267 J81t VHS

Tristan und Isolde
1983 245 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. Bayreuth production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, with Rene Kollo, Johanna Meier, Matti Salminen. Orchestra and chorus conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13tr DISC

(Il) Trittico
1983 150 min. Color
Three one-act operas (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) by Giacomo Puccini, libretti by Giuseppe Adami and Giovacchino Forzano. La Scala production by Sylvano Bussotti, with Piero Cappuccilli, Rosalind Plowright and Juan Pons. La Scala Orchestra and chorus with chorus master Romano Gandolfi and conductor Gianandrea Gavazzeni. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 P977t VHS

Trollflogten
Bergman
1974 134 min. Color
Film by Ingmar Bergman of the opera in two acts, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder, acted and sung by Ulric Cold, Josef Kostlinger, Erik Saeden, Birgit Nordin, Irma Urrila and Haken Hagegard. In Swedish with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939m DISC

Trollflogten
Bergman
1975 134 min. Color
Film by Ingmar Bergman of the opera in two acts, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder, acted and sung by Ulric Cold, Josef Kostlinger, Erik Saeden, Birgit Nordin, Irma Urrila and Haken Hagegard. In Swedish with English subtitles.
782.3 M93m VHS

(Il) Trovatore
1985 150 min. Color
Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto by Salvatore Camarano. Arena di Verona performance, directed by Brian Large, acted and sung by Franco Bonisolli, Rosalind Plowright, Giorgio Zancanaro and Fiorenza Cossotto, with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Arena di Verona, conducted by Reynald Giovanetti. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.5 V48tr4 VHS

(Les) Troyens
Large
1983 253 min. Color
Opera in three acts. Music by Hector Berlioz and libretto by the composer, after Virgil. The Metropolitan Opera production is directed by Fabrizio Melano. Opera and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera are conducted by James Levine. Principal performers are Tatiana Troyanos, Jessye Norman, Placido Domingo, Allan Monk and Paul Plishka. In French with English subtitles.
782.1 B51t VHS

Turandot
1983 138 min. Color
Opera in four acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after a fable by Carlo Gozzi. Vienna State Opera production by Rodney Greenberg, with Eva Marton, Jose Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli. The Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus and the Vienna Boys Choir, conducted by Lorin Maazel. In Italian with English subtitles.
782.10267 P977tu VHS

(Die) Walkure
1980 216 min. Color
Opera in three acts by Richard Wagner, first day of the festival drama DER RING DES NIEBELUNGEN. Bayreuther Festspiele production by Patrice Chereau, acted and sung by Peter Hofmann, Matti Salminen, Donald McIntyre, Gwyneth Jones and Hanna Schwarz. Chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, conducted by Pierre Boulez. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 W13 DISC

Werther
Weigl
1988 107 min. Color
West German television production of the opera by Jules Massenet based on a story by Goethe. Directed by Peter Weigl, conducted by Libor Dvorsky, with Brigitte Fassbaender and Magdalena Vasery. In French with no subtitles.
782.10267 M415w VHS

Wozzeck
Abbado
1987 98 min. Color
Opera in three acts with music and libretto by Alban Berg, based on the play of the same name by Georg B�chner. Vienna State Opera production for television, with Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens and Walter Raffeiner. Orchestra and chorus of the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Claudio Abbado. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 B493w DISC

(Die) Zauberfloete
1991 169 min. Color
Opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder. Metropolitan Opera production by John Cox, with Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Luciana Serra, Manfred Hemm and Kurt Moll. Production design by David Hockney. Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by James Levine. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939 DISC

(Die) Zauberfloete
1983 160 min. Color
Opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder. Bayerischen Staatsoper production by August Everding with Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel and Kurt Moll. Bayerisches Staatsorchester with the chorus of the Bayerischen Staatsoper, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. In German with English subtitles.
782.10267 M939za DISC