List of films based on operas

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This is a list of feature films based on operas.

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

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Opera  | Composer  | Librettist  | Film  | Film director

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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 | Gioachino Rossini | Cesare Sterbini | The Barber of Seville, 1947  | Mario Costa
The Barber of Seville, 1948  | Jean Loubignac
The Bartered Bride | Bedřich Smetana | 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
Carmen Jones, 1954  | Otto Preminger
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 Onegin, 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 M. 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 Preys | 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

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

This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2024)

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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

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

* Aria, 1987
* Meeting Venus, 1992, directed by István Szabó
* Opéra imaginaire, 1993
* Topsy-Turvy, 1999, directed by Mike Leigh

## See also

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* Lists of film source material
* Opera film
* Operetta film

## References

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

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