Movies: Richard Eyre
- 2014
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2014)
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Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house in 1930s Seville. Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast as the resourceful Figaro set on outwitting his master, th...
- 1981
The Cherry Orchard (1981)
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Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home an...
- 2009
La Traviata (2009)
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Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a less...
- 2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)
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Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with...
- 1980
Chance of a Lifetime (1980)
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Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army....
- 2014
Ghosts (2014)
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Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene...
- 2016
The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2016)
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Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occ...
- 1979
Long Distance Information (1979)
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Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era....
- 1986
The Insurance Man (1986)
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Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is la...
- 1978
One Bummer News Day (1978)
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What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?...
- 1980
Murder Rap (1980)
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Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families....
- 2021
Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years (2021)
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Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats and many more....
- 1986
Past Caring (1986)
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67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully....
- 1980
Pasmore (1980)
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Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined....
- 1979
Waterloo Sunset (1979)
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Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same....
- 1979
Pillion (1979)
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Developed by Paul Copley from his own 1977 stage play, Pillion tells the story of motorbike enthusiast Fenton and his friends, meeting in a rural shed. Recorded in the first half of 1979 for the BBC's Play for Today, the finished play was never broad...
- 2025
The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2025)
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Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Bariton...
- 1984
Loose Connections (1984)
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A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich....
- 2003
Vincent in Brixton (2003)
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Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow....
- 1995
The Absence of War (1995)
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Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election....