“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Federico Veiroj’s “The Moneychanger.” The first frame of the Uruguayan film “The Moneychanger” is set in a massive desert with a group of men from biblical times walking. Moments later, these men enter a market and start to throw everything around as music from Anton Rubenstein’s “Christus” starts to roar in the background. The scene in question is this very {…}