A Midsummer Night's Dream

Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Curtis Bernhardt

Cast

Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Cast

Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Pamela Brown

Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Cast

Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna

Dorothea Roeschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Mueller-Brachmann, Werner Guera, Daniela Bruera, and Roman Trekel star in this 2002 Deutsche Staatsoper production of the Mozart opera conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Runtime

2h 59m

Director

Michael Beyer

Cast

Dorothea Röschmann, Katherina Kammerloher, Hanno Müller-Brachmann

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted from composer Christoph Willibald-Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi's 1762 opera Orfeo ed Euridice. As the title suggests, it takes its basic narrative from the myth of Orpheus, and his cour...

Cast

Thomas Hengelbrock, Yann Bridard, Maria Riccarda Wesseling