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This is a list of feature films based on operas.
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| 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 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 |
- ^ "A Time of Destiny, 1988)". IMDB.com, Inc. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ "Plot summary for Rick (2003)". IMDB.com, Inc. Retrieved 31 July 2013.