Franco Zeffirelli

Giacomo Puccini’s final operatic masterpiece, Turandot, is one of the repertory’s most extravagant spectacles. And in the Met’s production, by ...

Live performance from the Vienna State Opera, 6 May 2010.

Puccini’s evergreen paean to young love and the bohemian life has captivated generations of Met-goers through Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic ...

Bruno Bartoletti conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in this production of Puccini’s opera from 2003. The performers ...

Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, ...

This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet’s 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco ...

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet’s “Carmen.”

Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He ...

Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the ...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British ...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, ...

Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home ...

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great ...

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell’arte ...

The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini’s “Turandot”, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton ...

Based on Shakespeare’s play, Verdi’s opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, “…the green-eyed monster which ...

Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.

This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisian cinemagoers flocked to it in ...

Franco Zeffirelli directs these two legendary La Scala productions telling tragic tales of jealousy. Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana ...

“La Bohème” is one of Giacomo Puccini’s most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York’s ...

As their romance unfolds, Jade and David’s growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade’s father. However, when ...