Arthaus Musik Popular Movie

NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fiorenza Cedolins

Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink

Genre: Music

Cast: Jacques Imbrailo

Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final...

Genre: Music

Cast: Renata Tebaldi

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernhard Kontarsky

A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cecilia Bartoli

1965 production of The Cunning Vixen directed by Walter Felsenstein at Studio Adlershof.

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Cast: Irmgard Arnold

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marilyn Horne

A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carlos Kleiber

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wolfgang Hübsch

Russian-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina entered the international spotlight at a relatively late age, when the 49-year-old came forward with her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sofiya Gubaydulina

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...

Genre: Music

Cast: Micaela Carosi

Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) and unfolds in an imaginary land inspired by the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon Butteriss

Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records...

Genre: Music

Cast: Valery Gergiev

Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mina Blum

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Rodney Gilfry

Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c)...

Genre: Music

Cast: Claudio Abbado

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Margaret Price

Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tiziano Severini

Serge Prokofiev's enigmatic work, this is a tale of the supernatural, religious hysteria and demonic possession which is set in Germany at the time...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Sergei Leiferkus