Krásná Helena

A musical drawing room farce set in Paris circa October, 1925. Middle-aged Gilberte flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with American Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arl...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Alain Resnais

Cast

Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Nanty, Audrey Tautou

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

Runtime

1h 17m

Director

Victor Janson

Cast

Mártha Eggerth, Hermann Thimig, Fritz Kampers

Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963.

Runtime

1h 41m

Cast

Anna Moffo, René Kollo, Dagmar Koller

This outdoor performance of Carl Zeller's celebrated operetta was staged at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in 1998. Seefestspiele Mörbisch is an operetta festival held annually at Mörbisch am See in Austria. In the story, Adam, a handsome bird-seller from the County of Tyrol, finds himself in the Rhineland, where he and a village postmist...

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Winfried Bauernfeind

Cast

Martina Serafin, Ute Gfrerer, Sebastian Reinthaller

Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Danilo, Hanna’s former flame, who is supposed to woo and marry her in order to keep her fo...

Runtime

2h 28m

Cast

Thomas Allen, Kelli O'Hara, Nathan Gunn