Terror at the Opera (1987), The King of Masks (1996), 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) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Opera movies.
Storyline: Farinelli is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes a very famous opera singer, managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo).—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: opera singer, brother, lover, composer, spectacular, confident, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: opera singer, conductor, opera director, love interest, diva, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 in love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying on her composer husband, Victor, while he works on his new opera. The boys are assigned to move Victor's piano to a secluded tree house, but become trapped on a rickety rope bridge high above an Alpine gorge when they're met halfway across by a gorilla.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, salesman, dishwasher, composer, opera singer, chambermaid, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What do you do when you are an effervescent teen called Polly and you have a dad who is the skipper of a luxury liner? You ask him to take you on a cruise to Rio of course. What if Captain Bradford refuses and wants you to stay in your boring boarding-school? You stow away, it goes without saying. What if you want to become a singer? Well, you try to convince an operatic star on board of your singing skills. What if Daddy objects to realizing that her daughter's new friend Laura has a crush on him? Just play Cupid for him.Don't you worry, all will end well!—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: captain, daughter, opera singer, fiancée, fiancé, aspiring singer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: opera singer, italian, immigrant, wife, socialite, uplifting, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) steals the life's work of the poor composer Professor L. Petrie. (Herbert Lom). In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petrie breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petrie returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: composer, wealthy man, producer, chorus girl, dwarf, kidnapper, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Victor Florescu is a talented, Brussels-based composer of serious music under the tutelage of respected Professor Bertier at the Music Conservatory. He is hoping to have his yet uncompleted operetta, "The Cat and the Fiddle", produced by famed impresario, Jules Daudet. Victor's focus in life changes when he meets Shirley Sheridan, a New Yorker just arrived in Brussels, she who moves into the pensione next to his own. He falls in love at first sight with her. She is also a composer - of the type of music more often heard in Tin Pan Alley - and is hoping to study with Professor Bertier. But it is Victor who helps her with her music. She also catches the attention of Daudet, who publishes her music although he is more interested in her as a woman. Regardless, she becomes rich and famous, and is required to move to Paris. In the short term, Victor, who moves to Paris with her, is more than willing to forgo his own musical aspirations to help her. But Victor is forced to choose between completing his operetta and being with Shirley, which may be all the more difficult a decision with Daudet waiting in the wings to be the one and only man in Shirley's life.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: ingénue, singer, composer, fiancé, musician, patron, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz wants the work done quickly, in time for an opera he's staging for himself. Fernandez's attentions are captured by two women at the clinic, Assumpta, the clinic's manager, and Malvina van Stille, a patient who is also a superb singer. Fernandez works on the machines and is drawn to the women while Droz may be manipulating more than the automatons. Do emotions and choice play any part, or it is all opera?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: opera singer, inventor, love interest, puppeteer, dark, offbeat, stage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prague, 1786. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spends a few turbulent months escaping the frustrating, privileged elite of Vienna. However his unconventional presence soon unleashes a series of dramatic and tragic events. Overwhelmed by the tangled web of violence and intrigue that surrounds him and with his mind affected, Mozart creates the astonishing music and drama that becomes 'Don Giovanni'.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: musician, young woman, composer, brooding, disturbing, frenetic, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Leonard Borland's contracting business is doing badly, while his monied wife wants to pursue an operatic career. He lets her get on with it until she seems to be a success, when he finds he himself has a singing voice good enough to go on tour with. This brings some money in, and his new singing partner fancies him too.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: contractor, wife, teacher, singer, secretary, musician, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 regarding worker happiness and meat purity. He begins supporting the musical career of singer Laura. During the Spanish American war he sells the Army tainted meat. Martha puts detectives on him and Laura. Indicted for fraud, he flees to Greece.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: business owner, theodore roosevelt, mother, wife, opera singer, socialite, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.
Plot Keywords: mobster, singer, opera singer, musician, secretary, mother, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: maid, bodybuilder, lover, husband, wife, king, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.
Plot Keywords: outlaw, sidekick, opera singer, servant, composer, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.
Plot Keywords: impostor, wife, ballerina, opera singer, violinist, broadway star, melodramatic ...
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