List of films based on operas

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This is a list of feature films based on operas.

Opera Composer Librettist Film Film director
Aleko Sergei Rachmaninoff Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Aleko, 1953 Sergei Sidelyov
Aida Giuseppe Verdi Antonio Ghislanzoni Aida, 1953 Clemente Fracassi
Aida, 1987 Claes Fellbom
Aida of the Trees, 2001 Guido Manuli
Un ballo in maschera Giuseppe Verdi Antonio Somma Masked Ball, 1917 Alfréd Deésy
Bánk bán Ferenc Erkel Béni Egressy Bánk bán, 2001
The Barber of Seville Bedřich Smetana Cesare Sterbini The Barber of Seville, 1947 Mario Costa
The Barber of Seville, 1948 Jean Loubignac
The Bartered Bride Gioachino Rossini Karel Sabina The Bartered Bride, 1932 Max Ophüls
Prodaná nevěsta, 1975 Václav Kašlík
The Beggar's Opera Johann Christoph Pepusch John Gay The Beggar's Opera, 1953 Peter Brook
Bluebeard's Castle Béla Bartók Béla Balázs Herzog Blaubarts Burg, 1963 Michael Powell
La bohème Giacomo Puccini Luigi Illica
Giuseppe Giacosa
La Bohème, 1926 King Vidor
La Bohème, 1965 Franco Zeffirelli
La Bohème, 1988 Luigi Comencini
Rent, 2005 Chris Columbus
La Bohème, 2008 Robert Dornhelm
The Bohemian Girl Michael William Balfe Alfred Bunn The Bohemian Girl, 1922 Harley Knoles
The Bohemian Girl, 1927
The Bohemian Girl, 1936 James W. Horne and Charles Rogers
Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky Modest Mussorgsky Boris Godunov, 1954 Vera Stroyeva
Boris Godunov, 1989 Andrzej Żuławski
Carmen Georges Bizet Ludovic Halévy
Henri Meilhac
Gypsy Blood, 1920 Karl Otto Krause
Carmen, 1931 Cecil Arthur Lewis
Carmen, la de Triana, 1938 Florián Rey
Nights in Andalusia, 1938 Herbert Maisch
Carmen, 1942 Christian-Jaque
The Wild, Wild Rose, 1960 Wong Tin-lam
Prénom Carmen, 1983 Jean-Luc Godard
Carmen, 1984 Francesco Rosi
Carmen: A Hip Hopera, 2001 Robert Townsend
Karmen Geï, 2001 Joseph Gaï Ramaka
U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha, 2005 Mark Dornford-May
Carmen's Kiss, 2008 David Fairman
Cavalleria rusticana Pietro Mascagni Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Guido Menasci
Cavalleria rusticana, 1953 Carmine Gallone
Cavalleria rusticana, 1982 Franco Zeffirelli
Les cloches de Corneville Robert Planquette Louis Clairville
Charles Gabet
Les cloches de Corneville, 1917 Thomas Bentley
Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo Da Ponte All Ladies Do It, 1992 Tinto Brass
Dalibor Bedřich Smetana Josef Wenzig Dalibor, 1956 Václav Krška
The Death of Klinghoffer John Adams Alice Goodman The Death of Klinghoffer, 2003 Penny Woolcock
Don César de Bazan Jules Massenet Adolphe d'Ennery
Philippe-François Pinel "Dumanoir"
Jules Chantepie
Rosita, 1923 Ernst Lubitsch
Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo Da Ponte Don Juan, 1955 Walter Kolm-Veltée
Don Giovanni, 1979 Joseph Losey
Don Pasquale Gaetano Donizetti Alphonse Royer
Gustave Vaëz
Eugène Scribe
Don Pasquale, 1940 Giovanni Ruffini
Gaetano Donizetti
Le domino noir Daniel Auber Eugène Scribe The Black Domino, 1929 Victor Janson
Die Entführung aus dem Serail Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gottlieb Stephanie The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1961 Alan Burke
L'elisir d'amore Gaetano Donizetti Felice Romani Der Liebestrank
The Eternity Man Jonathan Mills Dorothy Porter The Eternity Man, 2008 Julien Temple
Eugene Onegin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Konstantin Shilovsky
Eugene Ongein, 1959 Roman Tikhomirov
Der Evangelimann Wilhelm Kienzl Wilhelm Kienzl The Evangelist, 1924 Holger-Madsen
La favorite Gaetano Donizetti Alphonse Royer
Gustave Vaëz
Eugène Scribe
La Favorita, 1952 Cesare Barlacchi
La fille de Madame Angot Charles Lecocq Clairville
Paul Siraudin
Victor Koning
La fille de Madame Angot, 1935 Jean Bernard-Derosne
La fille du régiment Gaetano Donizetti Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Jean-François Bayard
The Daughter of the Regiment, 1953 Géza von Bolváry
Goffredo Alessandrini
Daughter of the Regiment, 1953 Georg C. Klaren
La forza del destino Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave The Force of Destiny, 1950 Carmine Gallone
A Time of Destiny, 1988[1]
Der Freischütz Carl Maria von Weber Johann Friedrich Kind Magic Hunter, 1994 Ildikó Enyedi
El gato montés Manuel Penella Manuel Penella El gato montés, 1936 Rosario Pi
Griffelkin Lukas Foss Alastair Reid H-E Double Hockey Sticks, 1999 Randall Miller
Hansel and Gretel Engelbert Humperdinck Adelheid Wette Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy, 1954 John Paul
Halka Stanisław Moniuszko Włodzimierz Wolski Halka, 1930 Konstanty Meglicki
Halka, 1937 Juliusz Gardan
Háry János Zoltán Kodály Béla Paulini
Zsolt Harsányi
Háry János, 1941 Frigyes Bán
Háry János, 1965 Miklós Szinetár
Khovanshchina Modest Mussorgsky Modest Mussorgsky Khovanshchina, 1959 Vera Stroyeva
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Dmitri Shostakovich Alexander Preys
Dmitri Shostakovich
Katerina Izmailova, 1966 Mikhail Shapiro
Louise Gustave Charpentier Gustave Charpentier Louise, 1939 Abel Gance
Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave
Andrea Maffei
Macbeth, 1987 Claude d'Anna
Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Luigi Illica
Giuseppe Giacosa
The Toll of the Sea, 1922 Chester Franklin
Madame Butterfly, 1932 Marion Gering
Madame Butterfly, 1954 Carmine Gallone
M. Butterfly, 1993 David Cronenberg
Madame Butterfly, 1995 Frédéric Mitterrand
The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Emanuel Schikaneder The Magic Flute, 1975 Ingmar Bergman
The Magic Flute, 2006 Kenneth Branagh
Magic Flute Diaries, 2008 Kevin Sullivan
The Magic Flute, 2022 Florian Sigl
The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo Da Ponte The Marriage of Figaro, 1949 Georg Wildhagen
The Marriage of Figaro, 1960 Alan Burke
The Medium Gian Carlo Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti The Medium, 1951 Gian Carlo Menotti
The Merry Wives of Windsor Otto Nicolai Salomon Hermann Mosenthal The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1950 Georg Wildhagen
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Richard Wagner Richard Wagner Der Meister von Nürnberg, 1927 Ludwig Berger
Mignon Ambroise Thomas Jules Barbier
Michel Carré
Mignon, 1915 William Nigh
The Mikado Arthur Sullivan W. S. Gilbert The Mikado, 1939 Victor Schertzinger
The Cool Mikado, 1963 Michael Winner
The Mikado, 1967 Stuart Burge
Moses und Aron Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg Moses und Aron, 1975 Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
La muette de Portici Daniel Auber Germain Delavigne
Eugène Scribe
The Dumb Girl of Portici, 1916 Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
The Mute of Portici, 1922 Arthur Günsburg
The Mute of Portici, 1952 Giorgio Ansoldi
Natalka Poltavka Mykola Lysenko Natalka Poltavka, 1936 Ivan Kavaleridze
The Nose Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Georgy Ionin
Alexander Preis
The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks, 2020 Andrei Khrzhanovsky
Otello Giuseppe Verdi Arrigo Boito Otello, 1906 Mario Caserini
Gaston Velle
Otello, 1986 Franco Zeffirelli
Pagliacci Ruggero Leoncavallo Ruggero Leoncavallo I Pagliacci, 1915 Francesco Bertolini
I Pagliacci, 1923 G. B. Samuelson
S. W. Smith
Pagliacci, 1931 Joe W. Coffman
Pagliacci, 1936 Karl Grune
Pagliacci, 1948 Mario Costa
Pagliacci, 1982 Franco Zeffirelli
Parsifal Richard Wagner Richard Wagner Parsifal, 1904 Edwin S. Porter
The Evil Forest, 1951 Daniel Mangrané
Parsifal, 1982 Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Les pêcheurs de perles Georges Bizet Eugène Cormon
Michel Carré
The Pearl Fishers, 1963 William Sterling
The Pirates of Penzance Arthur Sullivan W. S. Gilbert The Pirate Movie, 1982 Ken Annakin
The Pirates of Penzance, 1983 Wilford Leach
Porgy and Bess George Gershwin DuBose Heyward Porgy and Bess, 1959 Otto Preminger
Le postillon de Lonjumeau Adolphe Adam Adolphe de Leuven
Léon Lévy Brunswick
The Postman from Longjumeau, 1936 Carl Lamac
Prince Igor Alexander Borodin Alexander Borodin Prince Igor, 1969 Roman Tikhomirov
The Queen of Spades Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Modest Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, 1960 Roman Tikhomirov
Das Rheingold Richard Wagner Richard Wagner Das Rheingold, 1978 Ernst Wild
Das Rheingold, 1995
Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Hugo von Hofmannsthal Der Rosenkavalier, 1926 Robert Wiene
Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave Rigoletto, 1956 Flavio Calzavara
Rigoletto, 1982 Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Rick, 2003[2] Curtiss Clayton
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story, 2005 Gianfranco Fozzi
Rigoletto... in Bluegrass, 2006 Rob Swales
Rita Gaetano Donizetti Gustave Vaëz Rita
I vespri siciliani Giuseppe Verdi Eugène Scribe
Charles Duveyrier
Vespro siciliano, 1949 Giorgio Pastina
The Tales of Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach Jules Barbier The Tales of Hoffmann, 1923 Max Neufeld
The Tales of Hoffmann, 1951 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Tiefland Eugen d'Albert Rudolf Lothar Under the Mountains, 1920 Béla Balogh
Tiefland, 1922 Adolf E. Licho
Tiefland, 1954 Leni Riefenstahl
Tosca Giacomo Puccini Luigi Illica
Giuseppe Giacosa
The Song of Hate, 1915 J. Gordon Edwards
Tosca, 1941 Carl Koch
Tosca, 1956 Carmine Gallone
Tosca, 2001 Benoît Jacquot
La traviata Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave Camille, 1936 George Cukor
The Lady of the Camellias, 1947 Carmine Gallone
La traviata, 1967 Mario Lanfranchi
La traviata, 1983 Franco Zeffirelli
The Tsar's Bride Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Ilia Tyumenev The Tsar's Bride, 1965 Vladimir Gorikker
La Wally Alfredo Catalani Luigi Illica La Wally, 1932 Guido Brignone
Zar und Zimmermann Albert Lortzing Albert Lortzing The Czar and the Carpenter, 1956 Hans Müller

Rock operas[edit]

This is a list of feature films based on rock operas.

Opera Music Lyrics Film Film director
Jesus Christ Superstar, 1970 Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar, 1973 Norman Jewison
Quadrophenia, 1973 The Who The Who Quadrophenia, 1979 Franc Roddam
Tommy, 1969 The Who The Who Tommy, 1975 Ken Russell
The Wall, 1979 Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Pink Floyd – The Wall, 1982 Alan Parker

Other opera films[edit]

This is a list of other opera or opera based films.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "A Time of Destiny, 1988)". IMDB.com, Inc. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Plot summary for Rick (2003)". IMDB.com, Inc. Retrieved 31 July 2013.