List of films based on operas

This is a list of feature films based on operas.

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!width=|Opera

!width=|Composer

!width=|Librettist

!width=|Film

!width=|Film director

|Aleko

| Sergei Rachmaninoff

|Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

|Aleko, 1953

|Sergei Sidelyov

|rowspan=3|Aida

|rowspan=3| Giuseppe Verdi

|rowspan=3|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

|rowspan=2|The Barber of Seville

|rowspan=2|Gioachino Rossini

|rowspan=2|Cesare Sterbini

| The Barber of Seville, 1947

| Mario Costa

| The Barber of Seville, 1948

| Jean Loubignac

|rowspan=2|The Bartered Bride

|rowspan=2|Bedřich Smetana

|rowspan=2|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

|rowspan=5|La bohème

|rowspan=5| Giacomo Puccini

|rowspan=5|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

|rowspan=3|The Bohemian Girl

|rowspan=3|Michael William Balfe

|rowspan=3|Alfred Bunn

|The Bohemian Girl, 1922

|Harley Knoles

|The Bohemian Girl, 1927

|The Bohemian Girl, 1936

|James W. Horne and Charles Rogers

|rowspan=2|Boris Godunov

|rowspan=2|Modest Mussorgsky

|Boris Godunov, 1954

| Vera Stroyeva

|Boris Godunov, 1989

| Andrzej Żuławski

|rowspan=13|Carmen

|rowspan=13|Georges Bizet

|rowspan=13|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

|rowspan=2|Cavalleria rusticana

|rowspan=2|Pietro Mascagni

|rowspan=2|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

|rowspan=2|Don Giovanni

|rowspan=2| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

|rowspan=2|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

|rowspan=2|La fille du régiment

|rowspan=2|Gaetano Donizetti

|rowspan=2| 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

|rowspan=2|La forza del destino

|rowspan=2| Giuseppe Verdi

|rowspan=2|Francesco Maria Piave

|The Force of Destiny, 1950

|Carmine Gallone

|A Time of Destiny, 1988

|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

|rowspan=2|Halka

|rowspan=2| Stanisław Moniuszko

|rowspan=2|Włodzimierz Wolski

|Halka, 1930

|Konstanty Meglicki

|Halka, 1937

|Juliusz Gardan

|rowspan=2|Háry János

|rowspan=2| Zoltán Kodály

|rowspan=2|Béla Paulini Zsolt Harsányi

|Háry János, 1941

|Frigyes Bán

|Háry János, 1965

|Miklós Szinetár

|Khovanshchina

|Modest Mussorgsky

|Khovanshchina, 1959

| Vera Stroyeva

|Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

|Dmitri Shostakovich

| Alexander Preys Dmitri Shostakovich

|Katerina Izmailova, 1966

| Mikhail Shapiro

|Louise

|Gustave Charpentier

|Louise, 1939

| Abel Gance

|Macbeth

|Giuseppe Verdi

|Francesco Maria Piave Andrea Maffei

|Macbeth, 1987

| Claude d'Anna

|rowspan=5|Madama Butterfly

|rowspan=5| Giacomo Puccini

|rowspan=5|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

|rowspan=4| The Magic Flute

|rowspan=4| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

|rowspan=4|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

|rowspan=2|The Marriage of Figaro

|rowspan=2| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

|rowspan=2|Lorenzo Da Ponte

|The Marriage of Figaro, 1949

|Georg Wildhagen

|The Marriage of Figaro, 1960

|Alan Burke

| The Medium

|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

|Der Meister von Nürnberg, 1927

|Ludwig Berger

| Mignon

|Ambroise Thomas

|Jules Barbier Michel Carré

|Mignon, 1915

|William Nigh

|rowspan=3|The Mikado

|rowspan=3|Arthur Sullivan

|rowspan=3|W. S. Gilbert

|The Mikado, 1939

|Victor Schertzinger

|The Cool Mikado, 1963

| Michael Winner

|The Mikado, 1967

| Stuart Burge

| Moses und Aron

|Arnold Schoenberg

|Moses und Aron, 1975

|Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

|rowspan=3|La muette de Portici

|rowspan=3|Daniel Auber

|rowspan=3|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

|rowspan=2| Otello

|rowspan=2|Giuseppe Verdi

|rowspan=2|Arrigo Boito

|Otello, 1906

| Mario Caserini Gaston Velle

|Otello, 1986

| Franco Zeffirelli

|rowspan=6|Pagliacci

|rowspan=6| Ruggero Leoncavallo

|rowspan=6|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

|rowspan=3|Parsifal

|rowspan=3| Richard Wagner

|rowspan=3|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

|rowspan=2|The Pirates of Penzance

|rowspan=2|Arthur Sullivan

|rowspan=2|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

|Prince Igor, 1969

| Roman Tikhomirov

|The Queen of Spades

|Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

|Modest Tchaikovsky

|The Queen of Spades, 1960

|Roman Tikhomirov

|rowspan=2|Das Rheingold

|rowspan=2|Richard Wagner

|Das Rheingold, 1978

| Ernst Wild

|Das Rheingold, 1995

|Der Rosenkavalier

|Richard Strauss

|Hugo von Hofmannsthal

|Der Rosenkavalier, 1926

|Robert Wiene

|rowspan=5|Rigoletto

|rowspan=5|Giuseppe Verdi

|rowspan=5|Francesco Maria Piave

|Rigoletto, 1956

|Flavio Calzavara

|Rigoletto, 1982

|Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

|Rick, 2003

|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

|rowspan=2| The Tales of Hoffmann

|rowspan=2|Jacques Offenbach

|rowspan=2|Jules Barbier

|The Tales of Hoffmann, 1923

|Max Neufeld

|The Tales of Hoffmann, 1951

|Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

|rowspan=3|Tiefland

|rowspan=3|Eugen d'Albert

|rowspan=3|Rudolf Lothar

| Under the Mountains, 1920

| Béla Balogh

| Tiefland, 1922

| Adolf E. Licho

| Tiefland, 1954

| Leni Riefenstahl

|rowspan=4|Tosca

|rowspan=4|Giacomo Puccini

|rowspan=4|Luigi Illica Giuseppe Giacosa

| The Song of Hate, 1915

| J. Gordon Edwards

| Tosca, 1941

| Carl Koch

| Tosca, 1956

| Carmine Gallone

| Tosca, 2001

| Benoît Jacquot

|rowspan=4|La traviata

|rowspan=4|Giuseppe Verdi

|rowspan=4|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

|The Czar and the Carpenter, 1956

|Hans Müller

Rock operas

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

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!width=|Music

!width=|Lyrics

!width=|Film

!width=|Film director

|Jesus Christ Superstar, 1970

| Andrew Lloyd Webber

| Tim Rice

|Jesus Christ Superstar, 1973

|Norman Jewison

|Quadrophenia, 1973

| The Who

|Quadrophenia, 1979

|Franc Roddam

|Tommy, 1969

| The Who

|Tommy, 1975

|Ken Russell

|The Wall, 1979

| Pink Floyd

|Pink Floyd – The Wall, 1982

|Alan Parker

Other opera films

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

List of films based on operas

Rock operas

Other opera films

See also

References