1980

Wagner: Das Rheingold

6.1/4

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of...

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

1990

Das Rheingold

5.5/2

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening...

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Das Rheingold

1980

Wagner: Die Walküre

6/3

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetratio...

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Wagner: Die Walküre

1996

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

10/1

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès...

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Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

2001

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

10/1

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

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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

1999

Der Freischütz

0/0

Set in a mountainous and thickly wooded Bohemian landscape in the 17th century, Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" (The Marksman) tells the...

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Der Freischütz

2000

Die Zauberflöte

0/0

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.

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Die Zauberflöte

1985

Der fliegende Holländer

8.2/5

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Der fliegende Holländer

1989

The Flying Dutchman

7.2/2

lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a skipper who's been banished to sea for all eternity. S...

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The Flying Dutchman

1979

L'Incoronazione di Poppea

0/0

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Stag...

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L'Incoronazione di Poppea

2013

Verdi: Don Carlo

0/0

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 186...

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Verdi: Don Carlo

2007

Tristan und Isolde

0/0

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

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Tristan und Isolde

2010

Wagner: Die Walküre

0/0

It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who bring dead heroes to Valhalla (the cas...

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Wagner: Die Walküre

2010

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

0/0

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and pr...

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

2009

Wagner: Das Rheingold

0/0

In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' by La Fura dels Baus 'quite possi...

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

1998

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

0/0

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

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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

1990

Götterdämmerung

8/5

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production and byJames Le...

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Götterdämmerung

1990

Siegfried

7.5/2

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.

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Siegfried

2005

Parsifal

0/0

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

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Parsifal

2006

Fidelio

0/0

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

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Fidelio

2006

Aida

0/0

The Zurich Opera presents a stunning new production of Verdi’s most popular, most spectacular work. Responding superbly to the role, Swedish soprano...

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Aida

2008

The Met - Tristan und Isolde

0/0

James Levine’s love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It was an afternoon to remember: Met favorite Deborah Voi...

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The Met - Tristan und Isolde

2015

Aida

0/0

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major e...

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Aida

1986

Don Carlo

0/0

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

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Don Carlo

2004

Boris Godunov

0/0

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting poin...

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Boris Godunov

1983

Tristan und Isolde

6/2

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a grea...

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Tristan und Isolde

2007

Wagner: Parsifal

0/0

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and logic of its own ... with a double stress...

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Wagner: Parsifal

2001

Die Zauberflöte

0/0

This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris in 2001, was directed especially for TV and video. Som...

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Die Zauberflöte

2012

Fanatics

5.714/14

A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to notice that his dream-girl supports the wr...

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Fanatics

Parsifal's Progress

0/0

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

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Parsifal's Progress

2005

Wagner - Götterdämmerung

0/0

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

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Wagner - Götterdämmerung