Otto Schenk Movies

This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Domingo (Gustavus), Katia Ricciarelli...

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of...

A comedy directed by Frank Strecker.

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.

Austrian version of the novel "12 Chairs". While on vacation with her grandfather in Vienna, Samantha learns that she's inherited something. But upon...

To avoid serving his prison sentence, a fashionable socialite sneaks off to a lavish party. The champagne flows as guests waltz the night away, but...

Austrian classical conductor Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was as eccentric and reclusive as he was brilliant, persistently and obstreperously declining...

A filmed German performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed for the stage by Otto Schenk and performed at the Landestheater in 1973.

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag...

Recording of Johann Nestroy's play from the Landestheater Salzburg.

Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the...

When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins:...