Top opera films- Page 2

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/19/10 at 4:54pm

Anyone seen the La Traviata film with Anna Moffo? It's not as opulent as the Zeffirelli film, but Moffo is said to be excellent in it.
Anna Moffo in La Traviata

[JOak]

Posted: 8/19/10 at 6:02pm

Can I add La Belle et la Bête with Philip Glass score?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/19/10 at 6:16pm

I can also recommend Julie Taymor's film of Stravinsky's OEDIPUS REX. Basically a film of her stage production, with Jessye Norman as Jocasta and Philip Langridge as Oedipus, and I think Bryn Terfel as Creon. A remarkable production, ably captured on film. It is on DVD.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 8/19/10 at 6:54pm

I saw this once many many years ago on the fabled Z Channel in Los Angeles. It's a film of Aida with the prettiest people they could find acting the parts on film, and the voices recorded (and dubbed) by the finest singers of the day.

Sophia Loren was Aida, and was sung by Renata Tebaldi. Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in all the early Bond films) was Amneris, and was sung by Ebe Stignani. And so on.

I don't know if it's available in any sort of commercial form, but if you can find it, it's quite a treasure.
Aida

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/20/10 at 10:37am

Anyone remember this? 23 years later and I'm still not sure how I felt about it....
Aria- 1987

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/20/10 at 5:18pm

(segment features nudity/blood) Wagner - Liebestod - Aria (1987)

[Hest882]

Posted: 8/21/10 at 12:36am

"La Cenerentola"--which, yes, you can watch on YT--with a lovely, younger Frederica von Stade playing the Cinderella role. It was filmed in and around La Scala as well, so the backdrop is gorgeous too.
La Cenerentola

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/21/10 at 9:26pm

Yeah I watched the Liebestod and Nessun Dorma clips the other night- still very powerful.