Arthaus Musik Movies
- 1982
Verdi: Requiem
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Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...
- 2000
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
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A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà,...
- 1988
La Boheme
La Boheme81988HD
Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...
- 2004
Madama Butterfly
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Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has...
- 2007
Norma
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NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy. But she...
- 1965
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Adlershof)
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Adlershof)01965HD
1965 production of The Cunning Vixen directed by Walter Felsenstein at Studio Adlershof.
- 2018
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
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Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...
- 2010
Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber
Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber02010HD
A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred...
- 2012
Aida
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- 1998
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail01998HD
Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records...
- 1962
Verdi Otello
Verdi Otello01962HD
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final...
- 2014
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
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Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent...
- 2012
Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande82012HD
Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink
- 2014
A Swan Lake
A Swan Lake92014HD
The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince...
- 2001
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso72001HD
For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of...
- 1987
Wozzeck
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1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck...
- 2002
Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)
Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)02002HD
When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and...
- 2013
Wagner: Die Walküre
Wagner: Die Walküre02013HD
Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend....
- 1985
Aida
Aida61985HD
La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a...
- 2009
Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur02009HD
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...