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Leyla Gender-Bender says you must watch Godfather III
While Godfather III is definitely the weakest movie in the eponymous trilogy, partly due to a miscasting of Mary Corleone, I have nothing but praise for the wonderful, almost inspirational use of Cavalleria Rusticana in the finale of the movie.
By Leyla Gender-Bender
26 comments
Der junge Lord
Henze‘s opera in a live broadcast from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Carmen Paddock says you must watch The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley x Eugene Onegin.
By Carmen Paddock
69 comments
Entrance of the Willis
Rachel Willis-Sorensen is the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Award, per the Met press office
Weill Triptych
Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny Singspiel, and The Songs of Happy End live from Milan
John Yohalem says you must watch Something for Everyone
Wagner is used as incidental music or background to probably more films than any other operatic composer.
By John Yohalem
47 comments
James Grant says you must watch Someone to Watch Over Me
Some of you may remember the 1987 thriller Someone to Watch Over Me.
By James Grant
23 comments
Tannhäuser
Lydia Steier‘s production in a live video stream from Vienna
Mr. Portafiori says you must watch Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody was the wonderful biographical film about the singer Marjorie Lawrence. I thought it was a wonderful blending of opera with a 1950s Movie.
By M. Portafiori
47 comments
L’Orfeo
Rolando Villazon stars in a performance of Monteverdi‘s opera from Salzburg’s Mozartwoche recorded in January
Antony and Cleopatra
John Adams‘s newest opera in a live broadcast from New York
Scott Grunow says you must watch Humoresque
Tristan transcriptions for violin, piano, and orchestra.
By Scott Grunow
152 comments
Written on Skin
George Benjamin‘s opera live from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome
With noise and light
Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps not the showcase Elizabeth DeShong deserves, so Grand Tier Grab Bag highlights the superlative mezzo in two clips
Niel Rishoi says you must watch Maytime
Jeanette MacDonald singing in her movies got the ball rolling for my lifelong interest in opera.
By Niel Rishoi
37 comments
Dawn Fatale says you must watch Romance
Greta Garbo as diva Rita Cavallini with an Italo-Swedish accent.
By Dawn Fatale
72 comments
Ivy Lin says you must watch Romeo + Juliet
I love the use of the Liebestod at the end of Romeo + Juliet. It’s such a lush, romantic way to end the movie. The most Baz Lurhmann thing ever.
By Ivy Lin
51 comments
Cornelia says you must watch Melancholia
Impossible to pick any one film clip, but it’s hard to imagine a more evocative use of operatic music than Lars von Trier‘s Melancholia.
By Cornelia
66 comments
Alben Barg says you must watch Babette’s Feast
I think Babette’s Feast is a more or less perfect film and has been my favorite since the first time I saw it.
By Alben Barg
101 comments
A favorite Donizetti performance from Lawrence Brownlee
The thing that inspires me about Pavarotti’s performance here is that this is the piece within the opera that everyone in the audience is waiting to hear.
By Lawrence Brownlee
48 comments
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).