Christopher Ventris

8.0 MovieThe new Bayreuth production of the Ring Cycle that premiered in 2013 offered spectacular sets, courtesy of Aleksandar Denić. As is regularly the case in Frank...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie

2016

5.0 Movie

Die Walküre - Wiener Staatsoper

2015

3.0 Movie

Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper

2017

MovieA documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and...

Parsifal's Progress

2005

MovieShostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later,...

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

2007

MovieRequiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in...

Pfitzner: Palestrina

2009

MovieA stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

2002

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

Parsifal

2005

MovieBerg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium and soprano Elza van den Heever as...

The Metropolitan Opera: Wozzeck

2020

MovieIván Fischer makes his DNO debut. He conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Pierre Audi, artistic director of DNO and the Holland Festival, directs his first new...

Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)

2017

MovieRecorded at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Leos Janacek's opera follows the exploits of Emilia Marty (Anja Silja), a sexually irresistible prima donna who...

The Makropulos Case

1995

MovieThis is the Ring cycle of the Dutch National Opera, directed by Pierre Audi. Fleeing for his life, Siegmund seeks shelter at Sieglinde's house. Her husband Hunding...

Die Walküre - De Nationale Opera

2014

MovieCardillac is a master jeweler who cannot live without his creations, killing his clients to recuperate them and assert his authorship, and conferring the status of...

Cardillac