List of films based on operas

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This is a list of feature films based on operas.

The Wild, Wild Rose , 1960

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 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
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

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

Contents

OperaMusicLyricsFilmFilm 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

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