Deborah Polaski

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

Where Das Rheingold introduces us to the gods, underworld denizens, and giants who inhabit the world of Wagner's Ring cycle, the second of the four...

Genre: Music

Cast: Falk Struckmann

In the third work of Wagner's epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegmund's shattered sword is forged once again and kills the dragon that guards...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Treleaven

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise...

Genre: Music

Cast: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortunately, Kupfer's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Deborah Polaski

Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambreling conducts, with performances by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sylvain Cambreling

This Götterdämmerung is the only installment of the Kirchner/Rosalie/Levine 1994-8 Bayreuth Ring taped for subsequent DVD release. Kirchner...

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Cast: Wolfgang Schmidtke

Genre: History

Cast: Rainer Bock

"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore, Janáček faithfully and deeply conveyed...

Genre: Music

Cast: Amanda Roocroft