Opéra National de Paris Movie Trailers
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Bizet: Carmen Trailer (2017)
07 March 2017
With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José.
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Trailer (2016)
14 October 2016
Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love.
Massenet: Werther Trailer (2010)
26 January 2010
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther should travel - but not forget her.
Eugene Onegin Trailer (2008)
01 July 2008
Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.
Brise-Lames Trailer (2021)
01 January 2021
Wave-Breaker' is a choreography created by master of visual dancing Damien Jalet inspired by the movement of the waves, seen here as a metaphor of what passes through us, overwhelms us and eventually saves us.
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle Trailer (2018)
01 June 2018
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate.
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2016)
02 February 2016
The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score where rhythm and virtuosity place the comic effects in an ongoing dramatic narration.
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata Trailer (2018)
11 December 2018
In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awaits her client, her expression proud, her demeanour assured.
Adieu Bohème Trailer (2017)
27 October 2017
Once the show is over at Bastille Opera's 6th basement, Professor Turrel and his team open their shop.
Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur Trailer (2007)
24 September 2007
Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007.
Verdi: Il Trovatore Trailer (2016)
11 February 2016
Alex Ollé, one of the famous La Fura dels Baus, recreates the conflict and places principal protagonists in clear, transforming set with supporting lighting – facing all primal emotions directly, with no place to hide.
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2016)
15 November 2016
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta.
Les Contes d'Hoffman Trailer (2017)
15 November 2017
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta.
Benvenuto Cellini Trailer (2018)
12 April 2018
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy.
Médée Trailer (2017)
17 April 2017
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given.
Attila Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
Cavalli: Eliogabalo Trailer (2016)
14 September 2016
Systematically overturning accepted morals, Elagabalus dresses men as women, and names women to the Senate, favours sinning servants and humiliates generals.
Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera Trailer (2016)
14 July 2016
An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier.
Rossini: La Cenerentola Trailer (2018)
28 November 2018
Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel stepmother, Rossini’s la Cenerentola plays with these most conventional of fairy‑tale characters.
Die Zauberflöte Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris in 2001, was directed especially for TV and video.
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Trailer (2016)
19 September 2016
While the young people of Europe forsake Love to follow Bellone at war, Cupid sets out to shoot his arrows into the rest of the world.
Moses und Aron - Opéra National de Paris Trailer (2015)
20 October 2015
Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris.
Tosca Trailer (2014)
16 October 2014
In a mythical yet real Rome, from the shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle to the terrace of Castello Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all apart, mingling the erotic with the sacred, love with possession, theatre with life.
Ascension Trailer (2015)
15 September 2015
In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous Grand Foyer and eventually to the rooftop of the Palais Garnier, where they experience moments of heavenly, dreamlike luminosity.
Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2 Trailer (2018)
27 October 2018
Jerome Robbins considered the Paris Opera Ballet as his second home after the New York City Ballet. This production in his honour brings together works displaying the infinite diversity of his sources of inspiration and his genius on stage.
Les Boréades Trailer (2003)
01 March 2003
Director Robert Carsen and his creative team flood the stage with summer blossoms, drifts of autumn leaves, winter snows and thunderous spring storms.
Don Giovanni Trailer (1979)
06 November 1979
The famous nobleman Don Giovanni travels from town to town conquering women’s hearts, until the troubles he has created return to his own doorstep.
Orpheus and Eurydice Trailer (2008)
11 September 2008
The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted from composer Christoph Willibald-Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi's 1762 opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore Trailer (2018)
19 November 2018
A village somewhere in the Italian countryside, a wayside inn on a road crossed by the occasional dog.
Don Giovanni - Palais Garnier - from June 8 to July 13, 2019 Trailer (2019)
08 June 2019
What is this flame that compels Don Giovanni to seduce, subjugate and conquer women one after the other, with the fervour and cold indifference of a predator securing his prey; to pursue through his conquests some obscure and ever‑elusive objective? For his second collaboration with Da Ponte, Mozart was to brand the history of opera with a hot iron and forever haunt European culture.
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Trailer (2018)
11 September 2018
Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture.
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte Trailer (2017)
16 February 2017
Prompted by Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, two young idealists decide to put their lovers’ fidelity to the test.
The 350th Anniversary Inaugural Gala Trailer (2018)
31 December 2018
The year 2019 marks the 350th year of existence of the Opéra de Paris, and the Opéra national is staging two exceptional shows at the Palais Garnier in the form of an inaugural gala.
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi Trailer (2018)
17 May 2018
Weary of tragic subjects, for the final part of Il Trittico Puccini composed a grand confidence trick orchestrated by a falsifier willing to do anything to gain wealth.
La Belle au Bois Dormant Trailer (2025)
10 April 2025
King Florestan XIV invites all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening of his daughter Aurora. As they bestow beauty, generosity, and grace upon the princess, they are interrupted by the arrival of the horrible fairy Carabosse, who, furious at not having been invited to the festivities, casts a curse on Princess Aurora: on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger and die.
An Opera for an Empire Trailer (2021)
23 January 2021
The amazing and epic story of how the Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, was built from 1852 to 1870, thanks to the decisive impulse of the French Emperor Napoleon III; a story that is also that of the birth of a golden age for orchestral music, opera and ballet; of the rise of the urban bourgeoisie turned social elite; and of a certain mysterious inhabitant of the darkest corners of a legendary place.
Words in Your Hair Trailer (2019)
03 April 2019
Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (2018)
13 December 2018
The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants.
La grande sortie Trailer (2015)
15 September 2015
Prima ballerina takes the stage at the Ópera Bastille, consumed by her own anxiety and stage fright
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride Trailer (2016)
02 December 2016
In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores of Tauride.
Berg: Wozzeck Trailer (2017)
24 April 2017
Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier whose only solace is the love of his companion Marie.
Les Indes Galantes Trailer (2018)
18 February 2018
Les Indes Galantes (The amorous indies), is an opera-ballet created by Jean Philippe Rameau in 1735. He was inspired for one of the dance by tribal Indian dances of Louisiana performed by Metchigaema chiefs, in Paris in 1723.
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Trailer (2017)
16 May 2017
Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic – of a character embittered by society life, rejecting love out of vanity, killing his friend the poet Lenski out of pride and spending the rest of his days in abject despair.
Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris Trailer (2009)
01 April 2009
Coproduced with Siberia’s Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work.
La Bohème - Opéra National de Paris Trailer (2017)
12 December 2017
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence.
La Bayadère Trailer (2010)
01 October 2010
Breathtaking sets and costumes are designed by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino in this exceptional production, recorded at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
Donizetti: Don Pasquale Trailer (2018)
19 June 2018
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa.
There Is Joy in This Struggle Trailer (2018)
08 November 2018
Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Trailer (2019)
16 April 2019
Of Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
For a Moment Trailer (2016)
06 October 2016
Observing in close up the students of the Opéra National de Paris' dance school, who day after day build their future as dancers, Clémence Poésy offers a novel gaze that leaves the bodies at work off screen.
From the House of the Dead Trailer (2017)
15 November 2017
Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing.
Mireille Trailer (2010)
15 November 2010
In 2009, Frédéric Mistral’s tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of Gounod’s 1864 opera Mireille.
Hindemith: Sancta Susanna Trailer (2016)
28 November 2016
Klementia, who has been a nun for several years, is troubled by an apparition of Saint Susanna. The latter, performed by Anna Caterina Antonacci, lifts the veil on a carnal world she finds disturbing.
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden Trailer (2017)
25 April 2017
Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost.