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1. Lucia di Lammermoor (2009)
168 min | Drama, Music
The emotionally fragile Lucia is driven to madness when manipulated to marry a man she does not love. Featuring the most famous mad scene in the repertory and full of ravishingly beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti, Gabriele Viviani, Oren Gradus
Votes: 8
2. Mefistofele (2014)
140 min | Music
A forlorn, aged philosopher sets out on a perilous course when he makes a deal with the Devil in this monumental treatment of the Faust tale--an enticingly impressive production from the San Francisco Opera.
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson
Votes: 8
3. Don Giovanni (2010)
185 min | Music
The Don Juan legend crackles to life in the hands of the world's most well-known composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Carefully balancing brilliant comedy with heaping amounts of seduction ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Oren Gradus, Elza van den Heever, Mariusz Kwiecien, Kristinn Sigmundsson
Votes: 8
4. The Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' (2013)
180 min | Music
George Gershwin miraculously melded classical music, popular song, jazz, blues and spirituals in this quintessentially American masterpiece that tells the poignant story of a crippled ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Eric Owens, Laquita Mitchell, Lester Lynch, Michael Austin
Votes: 41
5. Il Trittico (2009)
300 min | Music
This evening of one-acts is like a lavish three-course dinner, prepared by a master and promising something for everyone's taste. Not since 1952 had San Francisco audiences had the rare ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Strand | Stars: Paolo Gavanelli, Tamara Wapinsky, David Lomeli, Patricia Racette
Votes: 7
6.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
The Little Prince
(2004)
TV-G | 90 min | Music, Musical
In an opera version of the famous literature classic, during World War I, an airplane pilot crashes his plane in the Sahara Desert, where he has a very unusual near-death experience.
Director: Francesca Zambello | Stars: Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Joseph McManners, Mairead Carlin, Willard White
Votes: 75
7. The Elixir of Love (2009)
158 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Donizetti's charming comedy is a celebration of innocence, so what setting could be better than a small Italian-American community in the Napa Valley, circa 1915? In this ingenious update, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Ramón Vargas, Inva Mula, Alessandro Corbelli, Giorgio Caoduro
Votes: 7
8. Lucrezia Borgia (2013)
184 min | Music
In this melodically rich bel canto masterpiece, a femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Vitalij Kowaljow
Votes: 17
9. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 896
10. Moby-Dick (2013)
142 min | Music
Set in 1820, the story of Ahab, captain of the ill-fated whaleship Pequod, and the crew he commands. Having lost one of his legs to the white whale called Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Patrick Summers, Jay Hunter Morris, Stephen Costello, Morgan Smith
Votes: 14
11. Otello (2012)
Drama, Music
In Verdi's masterful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, a great warrior discovers the one weapon against which he has no defense-his own jealousy. South African tenor Johan Botha, "... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Johan Botha, Zvetelina Vassileva, Marco Vratogna, Beau Gibson
Votes: 14
12. The Magic Flute (2007)
Music
Filled with ritual and symbolism, Mozart's final masterpiece is a playful but profound look at man's search for love and his struggle to attain wisdom and virtue. From the virtuosic arias ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley M. Garner | Stars: Piotr Beczala, Kathleen Hatch, Dina Kuznetsova, Christopher Maltman
Votes: 9
13. Salome (2012)
Drama, Music
Stars: Garrett Sorenson, Elizabeth DeShong, Andrew Funk, Bojan Knezevic
Votes: 10
14.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Little Women
(2001)
TV-G | 115 min | Music, Musical
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Stephanie Novacek, Chad Shelton, Margaret Lloyd, Stacey Tappan
Votes: 28
15. Samson and Delilah (2008)
180 min | Drama, Music
The definitive Delilah of our day, Olga Borodina has been praised by Allan Ulrich in the San Francisco Chronicle for her "gloriously voluptuous singing." The Russian mezzo-soprano reprises ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Clifton Forbis, Olga Borodina, Eric Jordan, Richard Walker
Votes: 13
16. La Rondine (2009)
150 min | Music, Romance
A thoroughly Italian work inspired by Viennese operetta, this rarely performed Puccini gem tells the story of love between a kept woman from high society and a naïve younger man of moderate... See full summary »
Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Misha Didyk, Anna Christy, Gerard Powers
17. La Bohème (I) (2009)
123 min | Music
Nicola Luisotti, San Francisco Opera's music director and a master of the Italian repertoire, conducts Puccini's most beloved opera. This heartwarming story of starving artists falling in ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Norah Amsellem, Piotr Beczala, Angela Gheorghiu, Oren Gradus
18. Aida (I) (2013)
Music
The grandest of grand operas, and a brilliant balance of spectacular pageantry and emotional intimacy. A bitter love triangle plays itself out against a backdrop of war and cultural ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Marcello Giordani, Hao Jiang Tian, Dolora Zajick, Micaela Carosi
19. Tosca (II) (2009)
125 min | Music
An idealistic artist, a celebrated singer and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of cruelty and deception. With its themes of political ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Zamacona | Stars: Marco Armiliato, Lado Ataneli, Jordan Bisch, Kenneth Kellogg
20. Boris Godunov (2013)
180 min | Music
In this Mussorgsky masterpiece, a Russian czar is haunted by a horrible act he committed years earlier. The concise original version of the opera, focusing on the emotional disintegration ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Strand | Stars: Kenneth Kellogg, Samuel Ramey, Valery Portnov, Nicolai Janitzky