Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.

Carlo Broschi, conhecido por Farinelli, foi um dos mais notáveis cantores de ópera do seu tempo, chegando a ser o mais bem pago do mundo. Porém, ele era também um "castrato", a quem foram retirados os testículos quando criança a fim de impedir a mudança da voz. Este filme explora a sua vida, a sua carreira, a relação difícil com os compositores, particularmente Handel, e a sua problemática relação com o irmão, o compositor Ricardo Broschi.

Natal de 1914, em plena 1ª Guerra Mundial. A neve e presentes da família e do exército ocupam as trincheiras francesas, escocesas e alemãs, envolvidas no conflito. Durante a noite os soldados saem de suas trincheiras e deixam seus rifles de lado, para apertar as mãos do inimigo e confraternizar o Natal. É o suficiente para mudar a vida de um padre anglicano, um tenente francês, um grande tenor alemão e sua companheira, uma soprano.

An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.

Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.

Fred (Michael Caine) e Mick (Harvey Keitel), dois velhos amigos com quase 80 anos de idade cada, estão passando as férias em um luxuoso hotel. Fred é um compositor e maestro aposentado e Mick é um cineasta em atividade. Juntos, os dois passam a se recordar de suas paixões da infância e juventude. Enquanto Mick luta para finalizar o roteiro daquele que ele acha que será seu último grande filme, Fred não tem a mínima vontade de voltar à música. Entretanto, muita coisa pode mudar.

An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.

Após a morte inesperada de sua esposa, um comediante de stand-up se vê sozinho tendo que cuidar de sua filha pequena Anette, de apenas 2 anos. Se não bastassem as dificuldades em cuidar da criança, ele acaba descobrindo que ela tem um dom especial

Chorus girl Rosa Carillo (Carmel Myers) finds herself in dire straits when the troupe she works with is disbanded and her last fifty dollars is stolen. Artist Billy Leeds (Earl Rodney) offers to take care of her, but she's leery of his proposition. Instead she finds work with an Italian grocer, Tony Bonchi (Edwin August). One of the other ex-members of the troupe has Tony arrested on a trumped up charge. Rosa returns to Billy and offers herself to him if only he'll get Tony out of jail.

The Nightingale of Tibet is a musical biopic about the life of opera singer Yiga Gyalnang, played by Tibetan singer Namgyal Lhamo. The movie follows the perilous journey of the singer as she escapes illegal detention in an underground Tibetan prison cell to make it across the border to Nepal and eventually to Europe where she finds international acclaim and success.

Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance...

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

"Myth" was the callsign of Vasyl Slipak, the world-famous Ukrainian opera singer, a soloist of the Parisian National Opera, who left the big stage to become a volunteer, a warrior fighting in the East of Ukraine. The Hero of Ukraine, the Knight of the Order "Golden Star" and the Order "For Courage", Vasyl Slipak gave his life, defending Ukraine. This documentary is a real story of heroism and self-sacrifice, which makes us think over our own lives.

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world.

Marjorie grew up in Winchelsea in country Victoria, Australia, dreaming of becoming an opera star like Dame Nellie Melba. In 1928 she went to Paris to study opera without knowing a word of French and having never heard of Richard Wagner. In 1941, at the height her success, she was tragically cut down by polio and became completely paralysed. With the help of Australian nurse, Sister Kenny, Marjorie regained movement in her upper body and resumed her career in a wheelchair. In 1955, MGM made a movie of her life, "Interrupted Melody", starring Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, which won an Academy Award.

Rene Gallimard é um diplomada francês a serviço em Pequim. Ao assistir a uma apresentação da ópera "Madame Butterfly" de Puccini ele fica obcecado pela graça e beleza da contara Song Liling. Gallimard passa então a persegui-la por todos os lugares, envolvendo-se cada vez mais com o exótico mundo ca cultura chinesa. Quando finalmente, a força de sua paixão transforma-se em um intenso romance, ele acaba conduzindo a um jogo imprevisivel de interesses politicos e revelações que mudarão por completo sua vida.

Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.