Manufacturer: Warner Music Entertainment

Manufacturer: Universal Classics & Jazz

Like the finest of film scores with its fluid beauty and succession of intensely romantic tunes, Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly has a surprisingly cinematic feel. In 1995 director Frederic Mitterand exploited this quality of the story, exposing a young woman's disillusionment against a backdrop of cultural chasms. Shot on location, with Tunisia doubling convincingly as a turn of the ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan, Jing Ma Fan
Directed By: Frédéric Mitterrand

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
Starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramon Vargas, Ludovic Tezier, Nicola Luisotti
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: Decca
Starring: Josep Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta
Directed By: Brian Large

Manufacturer: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, José Van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Edda Moser
Directed By: Joseph Losey

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Urbano Barberini
Directed By: Franco Zeffirelli

Manufacturer: Opus Arte
Starring: Pamela Armstrong, Cecilia Bartoli, Alessandro Corbelli, Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie Von Otter

The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II--official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow
Directed By: Milos Forman

Manufacturer: Universal Classics & Jazz