Brian Large

One of Giacomo Puccini's greatest operas has been magically transposed to film in this stirring and wonderfully performed production featuring Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna as the star-crossed lovers. (Avatar Films)

Record of the 1994 David Alden production of Wagner's opera at the Munich National Theatre, conducted by Zubin Mehta and shot over three days by director Brian Large.

"Adriana Lecouvreur" dramatizes the celebrated 18th-century French actress' tempestuous rivalry with the Princess of Bouillon for the Count of Saxony's love. This opulent La Scala production evokes the violent emotions, tender sentiments, and romantic intrigues expressed in Cilea's "verismo" masterpiece.

Stiffelio, the protagonist, is a fundamentalist Protestant pastor whose wife Lina is "an innocent" adulteress (she has been tricked into sin).

Wagner's opera, staged by Werner Herzog at Bayreuth in 1987.

Controversial staging of Alban Berg’s opera about incestuous clown/prostitute Lulu. (366weirdmovies.com)

Ethereal music, a fairytale plot, beguiling sets and spectacular special effects all these combined to make Rinaldo in every sense the Baroque multimedia event par excellence. (Letterboxd)

Filmed performance of Wagner's 1850 opera at the Vienna State Opera.