Michael Hampe

8.7 MovieLive performance from Salzburger Festspiele in 1987. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor. Stage director Michael...

Don Giovanni

1987

9.0 MovieIl signor Bruschino is the last of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the young Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. The stage is small and...

Il signor Bruschino

1989

7.0 MovieLive performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1988. What sets this IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA apart from all others available is its elegant realism. None of its...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

1988

10.0 MovieMichael Hampe’s acclaimed production of Wagner’s comic opera tells a charming, human, romantic love story. And yet, at the same time, registers his protest against...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

1988

9.0 MovieGioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival with Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza as Cinderella and the...

La Cenerentola

1988

8.0 MovieOfficers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful to them, but the cynical Don Alfonso challenges them to a bet that...

Cosi Fan Tutte

1989

4.0 MovieMozart’s Così fan tutte returns to Teatro alla Scala in this January 2021 performance, streamed during the pandemic under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini....

Mozart: Così fan tutte - Teatro alla Scala

2021

MovieLa cambiale di matrimonio, farsa comica in two acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, was first produced at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 3 novembre 1810. The...

Rossini La cambiale di matrimonio

MovieEsteemed Italian conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a moving performance of Rossini's one-act opera "L'Occasione Fa Il...

Rossini: L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro

1982

MovieConductor Arnold Östmann leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen in this production of Antonio Salieri's comic...

Salieri: Falstaff

2000

MovieIn Benjamin Britten's operatic adaptation of Henry James' masterwork, a naive governess (Helen Field) arrives at a country manor and soon discovers that it holds a...

The Turn of the Screw

1990

MovieThis beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen Palace in May 1990. La scala di seta...

La Scala di Seta - Rossini

2006

MovieAn excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters. Bruscantini as Don Alfonso is past his prime, but he knows and...

Cosi Fan Tutte

1983

MovieThis production comes from the Dresden Music Festival of 2000. The stage director is Michael Hampe, who was behind the similarly excellent Schwetzingen Agrippina from...

George Frideric Handel - SERSE

2000