Carmen (1995)

Versão contemporânea da ópera de Bizet, com novas letras e um elenco afro-americano. A história da produtora de cigarros Carmen e do soldado espanhol da cavalaria Don Jose é transposta na história moderna de uma operária de pára-quedas e um soldado robusto chamado Joe, que está prestes a ir para a escola de vôo. O conflito surge quando um campeão do ringue captura o coração de Carmen depois que ela seduziu Joe e o levou a ficar inoperante.

Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.

Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year’s Eve 2009. Elīna Garanča leads the cast as the iconic gypsy of the title—a woman desired by every man but determined to remain true to herself. Roberto Alagna is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell and sacrifices everything for her love, only to be cast aside when the toreador Escamillo (Teddy Tahu Rhodes) piques Carmen’s interest. With dances created by star choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and conducted by rising maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this Carmen brings every aspect of Bizet’s tale to thrilling life, from its lighthearted beginning to its inevitably tragic climax.

Após tentar se suicidar, Salieri confessa a um padre que foi o responsável pela morte de Mozart e relata como conheceu, conviveu e passou a odiar Mozart, que era um jovem irreverente mas compunha como se sua música tivesse sido abençoada por Deus.

Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) é uma rica herdeira que persegue obsessivamente uma carreira de cantora de ópera. Aos seus ouvidos, sua voz é linda, mas para todos os outros é absurdamente horrível. O ator St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), seu companheiro, tenta protegê-la de todas as formas da dura verdade, mas um concerto público coloca toda a farsa em risco.

Este imortal e espetacular conto de terror de Gaston Leroux é estrelado por Claude Rains como o mascarado fantasma da Ópera de Paris, um compositor enlouquecido que planeja fazer de uma linda jovem soprano (Susanna Foster) a estrela da companhia de ópera e saciar sua vingança contra os que roubaram sua música. Nelson Eddy, o heróico barítono, tenta obter o afeto da garota enguanto persegue os passos do monstro que começa a matar aqueles que resiste a suas loucas exigências.

Felicie é uma menina órfã apaixonada pela dança. Ao lado do seu melhor amigo Victor, que deseja se tornar um grande inventor, eles desenvolvem um grande plano de fuga para conseguirem o que querem. Eles fogem do orfanato em que vivem para Paris, a Cidade Luz, onde a torre Eiffel ainda está sendo construída. Felicie terá que se superar e aprender com seus erros para tornar o seu grande sonho em realidade: ser uma grande bailarina da Ópera Nacional de Paris.

A história se passa 10 anos depois. 0 Fantasma fugiu de Paris e vive em New York entre aventuras inconsequentes e shows de horror de Coney Island. Embora tenha finalmente encontrado um lugar para expressar sua música, ele ainda sente falta do amor de Christine Daaé. Em uma aposta para reconquistá-la, Fantasma atrai Christine, seu marido Raoul, e o filho do casal, Gustave, de Manhattan, para o glorioso e brilhante mundo de Coney Island… mas eles não tem ideia do que os aguarda... Você não pode dizer que conhece Love Never Dies de Andrew Lloyd Webber até ver esta espetacular produção australiana, filmada no icônico Regent Theatre de Melbourne.

A filha mais velha de um casal de artistas, Hannah, é uma dedicada esposa, mãe carinhosa e atriz de sucesso. Uma leal defensora de suas duas confusas irmãs Lee e Holly, ela é também a espinha dorsal de uma família que parece se ressentir de sua estabilidade quase tanto quanto dependem da mesma. Mas quando o mundo perfeito de Hannah é silenciosamente sabotada pela rivalidade fraterna, ela finalmente começa a ver que está tão perdida quanto todos os outros, e para poder se encontrar, ela terá que escolher entre a independência e ... a família sem a qual ela não pode viver.

Em 1942, um avião da Royal Air Force é abatido sobre uma Paris ocupada pelo exército nazi. Os três pilotos saltam em para-quedas: Peter Cunningham cai nos andaimes de Augustin Bouvet, um pintor da construção civil que está a trabalhar na fachada do comando alemão, Alan Macintosh aterra no telhado da Ópera, durante o ensaio da orquestra, dirigida por Stanislas LeFort, e Sir Reginald mergulha no tanque das focas, no Jardim Zoológico de Vincennes. Enquanto a polícia alemã se lança à sua procura, Stanislas e Augustin ocupam-se dos ingleses, lançando-se nas mais extraordinárias aventuras, para os conduzirem para a zona livre.

A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.

Um compositor grotescamente desfigurado conhecido como o "Fantasma" assombra a casa de ópera de Paris, onde, apaixonado, ajuda secretamente Christine Daae a ser uma diva da ópera. Após atraí-la para seu covil subterrâneo, o Fantasma declara seu amor por ela. Mas Christine ama Raoul de Chagny e planeja fugir com ele depois de sua próxima apresentação. Quando o Fantasma descobre, ele rapta Christine, provocando a ira de Raoul - e uma horda de parisienses raivosos. O filme foi relançado com som, em 1929, usando discos de som da Vitaphone/Western Electric.

A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.

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.

1921, início da década de ouro dos anos 20. Não longe de Paris.
 É dia de festa no castelo de Marguerite Dumont. Ninguém sabe muito sobre esta mulher, excepto o facto de ser rica e de ter dedicado toda a vida à sua grande paixão: a música. Marguerite canta. Canta com toda a sua alma, mas terrivelmente desafinada. Marguerite tem vivido esta paixão dentro da sua concha e o público hipócrita, sempre presente para uma boa gargalhada, age como seu ela fosse a Diva que pensa ser. Quando um jovem jornalista provocador decide escrever um artigo entusiástico sobre a sua última performance, Marguerite começa a acreditar ainda mais no seu talento. Isso dar-lhe-á a coragem de que necessita para seguir o seu sonho.

Considerado a grande obra-prima dos Looney Tunes. Na trama, Elmer eprsegue Pernalonga em uma ópera.

A restaurant owner falls in love with an opera singer and, desperate to impress her, travels to Italy to learn how to sing.

Dois amantes que gostam e trabalham com ópera estão distantes porque o homem não é bem aceito como tenor. Os irmãos Marx, então, fazem com que o tenor normal esteja ausente para o outro ter sua grande chance, através de muitas palhaçadas típicas do grupo.

In director Vicente Aranda's adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, who turns her charms on a young soldier, awakening his passions but ultimately leading to tragedy. Jose becomes obsessed with Carmen and finds himself unable to control his jealousy, which forces him to make a deadly decision in this fiery story of love and betrayal.

Christmas is now more beautiful and cosy than ever! Experience Christmas in London, together with André Rieu. Decorated Christmas trees everywhere you look, beautifully lit streets, tempting Christmas window displays... Combine the unique London Christmas atmosphere with a magnificent Christmas concert by André Rieu, and you have all the ingredients for a lovely party in the dark December days. Together with fantastic soloists and his always joyful Johann Strauss orchestra, André Rieu provides a fabulous evening with the most beautiful and moving Christmas carols, but also with emotional songs such as Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, The Holy City and the classic Concierto de Aranjuez. Christmas in London means an evening enjoying lovely music, beautiful costumes and plenty of London cosiness.

A wild man in wilderness is nothing extraordinary, it is something easily imagined. But how to live in wilderness as an urban, civilised person? How to strike a balance between harmony with nature and participation in the society – without fear, cynicism, regret, frustration? How to retain your dignity in difference? How to live with less without any sacrifice? This is a story of a man who has taken fate into his own hands, radically reducing his dependence on dispensable essential material possessions of the modern society without cutting off his participation in it. This is a story of Nara, Nara Petrovič – Human.

Worker's quarters on Vida Pregarc Street, Ljubljana: a house originally built to accommodate construction workers has storeys, three entrances, and as a result of the privatization process, nineteen owners. The fates of its residents vary...

After her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son's ashes in Macedonia. Meanwhile, Lucian's lover struggles to provide for their son and break free from her dictatorial father.

A film about a theatre performance and four very notable people behind it: writer and director D. Jovanović, actress M. Zupančič and actors R. Polič and B. Cavazza. This is a story of a love triangle and of a multi-layered, entirely overt intertwining of protagonists’ public artistic personas and their personal lives. The film documents a 4-month process of the making of a theatre piece from the first rehearsal to the opening night, at the same time uncovering the intimate lives of the artists and telling a universal story of the relationship between the real and the imagined, a story of personal and public perceptions of art.

Ivan is released a day early from a treatment programme for alcoholics due to a doctors' strike. He returns to his wife Sonja and his sixteen year old son Robi. The first afternoon he spends at home is very pleasant. The next morning Sonja sends Ivan to a shop to get bread and milk. On the way back Ivan runs into Armando, his high school classmate, and through their conversation at a bar, Ivan finds out that long before Sonja became his wife, Armando spent a night with her. Ivan has his first drop of the hard stuff...Kruh in mleko is a bitter-sweet tale of loneliness, estrangement and the glowing embers of love, where there once used to be a fire.

Peter is in his early forties and until recently he worked in a factory, but after Slovenia's integration into the European Union, the factory closed down and Peter and his colleagues have been made redundant. Slowly but surely, he is losing self-confidence and self-esteem.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

In Varja Mocnik's documentary, members of former Yugoslav rock band Buldozer, their friends and fans reminisce about the time of the release of the band's debut album Pljuni istini u oci (1975). Their accounts interlace with fictitious scenes, the record artwork, archive material and animation, to ultimately come together into an inventive, surrealist film that speaks not just of the legendary album, but also of the society and reality of the time.

19 filmmakers from ten european countries selected by Mike Figgis for a Masterclass by the European Film Academy come to Slovenia in a challenging mission: to conceive, shoot, complete a 90m feature film in seven days and screen it on the day after in a cinema for the public.

Risking his life, filmmaker and human rights activist Kriznar travels across Darfur for a peace mission, but business interests appear paramount.

L.V. Strocki is a traveling film projectionist in the best years. He is a representative of the first generation who watched partisan films, lived to see the invasion of the television and ended up among vampires. In the coastal region town he is preparing a film projection on the town square and a television team is making a documentary about this event. During the film projection about the heroines and heroes of an occupied town, a Heroine in a seductive outfit comes to see Strocki in his projection booth.

Two brothers are torn apart after finding out they will inherit few millions from their father.

Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.

Armin has been unemployed for a long time, and in desperately need of a job. His wife Jasmina is pregnant, and his son Edin has behavioral problems at school.

Miha, a poet whom no one takes seriously, earns his living by writing cheap advertising slogans. This outsider poet of the new age gets commissioned to write an ode to the famous Slovene poet Preseren, for the occasion of the national celebration, due to the 200th anniversary of Preseren's birth. Who was Preseren, what did he drink and what sort of woman did he like? A comedy can begin.

Two couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more – about life, about love, about themselves.

In 2007 three artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to that of the leader of that party, the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons, the boundaries between their lives and their art began to merge in numerous and unforeseen ways.

Hannah and Sam are young, have a house, a lovely daughter, Anja, and well paid work. However, their comfortable family routine is thrown into emotional turmoil. When Hannah realizes Sam has an affair with a young female colleague, she packs her suitcase and returns to her mother. She reunites with her ex-flame Leo, from her student years hoping it will help her to move on, but discovers that Leo is a philanderer. Hannah makes a hard choice.

At the beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serbian school director in the Serbian province, has been asked to immediately go to Belgrade to get war schedule. His wife Lea, Slovene, with no one to leave because the two of them recently arrived in the small town and no one really knows them. Azem, an Albanian, school attendance, gives Filip a promise (Besa) to watch the Lea and that nothing will happen. Lea and Azem, are forced to live together in an abandoned school. Their relationship changes during the time.

16 year old girl go-kart driver Nika exceeds conflict with her mother to win the most important race of her life.