Holiday Movies

The Nutcracker

• Baryshnikov's (1977)
• Balanchine's (1993)
• Kriov Ballet (1994)

Musicals

Scrooge (1970)

A musical version of A Christmas Carol.

Opera

Amahl and the night visitors (1955)

Maybe the only made-for-TV opera.

Rent (2015) 

Rent Live on Broadway (2009)

La Boheme

After all, three of the four acts of Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and doomed love take place on Christmas Eve.

• Baz Luhrmann's (1993)
• Zeffirellis' Live from the Met (1982)
• Robert Dornhelm (2008)