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Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy
Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy (1954)
, 1h12
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about families, Musical films, Films based on operas, Children's films
Actors Mildred Dunnock

Deux enfants perdus et affamés découvrent avec émerveillement une maison en pain d'épices au milieu de la forêt. Mais la sorcière n'est pas loin.
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel (1988)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Children's films
Actors Nicola Stapleton, David Warner, Emily Richard, Cloris Leachman, Hugh Pollard

Hansel et Gretel sont les deux enfants d'une famille pauvre. Leur mère, inquiète de leur pauvreté, et leur père, continuellement malmené par l'inquiétant boulanger du village, apprennent que les enfants des environs disparaissent mystérieusement depuis quelque temps, sans laisser de traces. Ils reçoivent de la part de leur voisin du lait et des œufs. Pendant que les deux enfants s'amusent dans la cuisine, l'âne s'échappe de son enclos, fait tomber la cruche de lait et mange le gâteau qu'a préparé leur mère avec les œufs. Très fâchée, elle les envoie chercher des baies sauvages. Bravant l'interdiction de leur père, Hansel et Gretel décident d'aller chercher ces baies sauvages dans la forêt mystérieuse.
Nobody's Children
Nobody's Children (1951)
, 1h29
Origin France
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Gino Buzzanca, Yvonne Sanson, Françoise Rosay, Folco Lulli, Alberto Farnese, Teresa Franchini

En Italie, l'aristocratique et richissime famille Canali est propriétaire d'une carrière de marbre. C'est le séduisant fils Guido qui s'occupe de son exploitation. Guido et Luisa, fille de l'un de ses employés, tombent réciproquement amoureux et font des projets de mariage. La tyrannique comtesse Canali n'entend pas que son fils puisse compromettre la famille avec une roturière. Sans aucun état d'âme, elle va user de tous les stratagèmes pour mettre fin à leur liaison. Quand elle apprend que Luisa est enceinte, elle dissimule l'évènement à Guido en expédiant illico celui-ci en Angleterre où elle a arrangé à son insu son mariage avec une noble héritière. Elle intercepte ensuite toutes les lettres que Guido envoie à Luisa qui vient à penser que son amant l'a abandonnée tandis que Guido la croit morte. Luisa donne naissance à un garçon et l'existence de ce bâtard insupporte tellement la comtesse qu'elle organise son enlèvement puis simule sa disparition dans un incendie. Luisa, désespérée, entre au couvent et prend le voile sous le nom de sœur Addolorata.
I Give My Heart
I Give My Heart (1935)
, 1h30
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Films based on operas, Films about royalty
Actors Patrick Waddington, Owen Nares, Arthur Margetson, Hugh Miller, Gibb McLaughlin, Jimmy Godden

Jeanne is a milliner courted by aristocrats. She first has an affair with René, a young writer for Count du Barry. She then marries the Count in order to become Louis XV's mistress.
Il trovatore
Il trovatore (1949)
, 1h51
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Cesare Polacco

Pour venger sa mère brûlée vive par le Comte Di Luna, une gitane kidnappe l'un des deux enfants du comte avec l'intention de le tuer dans les flammes .
L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore (1947)
, 1h30
Directed by Mario Costa
Origin Italie
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Nelly Corradi, Silvana Mangano, Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Pesce, Giuseppe Rinaldi

Nemorino est amoureux d'Adina, mais il est sûr que c’est Belcore qu'elle aime. Dulcamara le persuade d'acheter un philtre d'amour magique, mais ce n’est que du vin qu’il lui vend. Adina accepte d'épouser Belcore, mais c’est pour provoquer Nemorino, qui ne s’en rend pas compte. Nemorino embrasse la carrière militaire pour gagner plus d'argent afin d’acheter davantage de potion magique. Il ne sait pas qu'il a hérité d'une grande fortune alors que tout le village est au courant. Les filles du village courent après lui, ce qui le convainc qu’on peut se fier à la potion magique. Adina rompt son engagement avec Belcore et avoue son amour à Nemorino.
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
, 1h34
Directed by Peter Brook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge, Stanley Holloway

In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera.
El sueño de Andalucía
El sueño de Andalucía (1951)
, 1h34
Directed by Luis Lucia Mingarro
Origin France
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Luis Mariano, Carmen Sevilla, Arlette Poirier, Perrette Souplex, Liliane Bert, Enrique Guitart

Juanillo est amoureux de Dolores, la fille du propriétaire d'une auberge. Il aime chanter, elle aime danser. Après les festivals du village, où Juanillo a agi comme un matador et Dolores a joué, il a été engagé comme le matador pour un tour en Amérique. Ils échangent des vœux, mais leurs lettres seront interceptées.