Waltraud Meier Movies

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norbert Balatsch

Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a voice within...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Waltraud Meier

Documentary about female opera stars.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diana Damrau

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the...

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Cast: Waltraud Meier

THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde...

Genre: Music

Cast: Siegfried Jerusalem

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nikolaus Lehnhoff

The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Iréne Theorin

Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Roberto Alagna

Genre: Music

Cast: Waltraud Meier

Last production staged by Patrice Chéreau, this Elektra will remain as the main and most striking lyrical event of these last years in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Evelyn Herlitzius

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernd Weikl

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ian Storey

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Gambill

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele....

Genre: Music

Cast: Siegfried Jerusalem

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I...

Genre: Music

Cast: James Levine

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

Genre: Music

Cast: Waltraud Meier

This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion...

Genre: Music

Cast: Agnes Baltsa

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director.

Genre: Music

Cast: Christopher Ventris

The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nina Maria Stemme

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge,...

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Cast: Carsten Stabell

At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner's LOHENGRIN, the third of the German...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hans-Peter König

A staging of the opera by Mascagni.

Genre: Music

Cast: José Cura

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jon Fredric West

Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Deborah Voigt

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Piotr Beczala

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franz Grundheber

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend....

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon O’Neill

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lance Ryan

David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September...

Genre: Music

Cast: René Kollo