Arthaus Musik Movies

  • 1962
    Verdi Otello

    Verdi Otello

    Verdi Otello

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    Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final...

    Verdi Otello
  • 1993
    The Fiery Angel

    The Fiery Angel

    The Fiery Angel

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    Serge Prokofiev's enigmatic work, this is a tale of the supernatural, religious hysteria and demonic possession which is set in Germany at the time...

    The Fiery Angel
  • 2012
    Aida

    Aida

    Aida

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    Aida
  • 1971
    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)

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    Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin.

    Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin)
  • 1985
    Aida

    Aida

    Aida

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    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...

    Aida
  • 2009
    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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    At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the...

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  • 2002
    Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)

    Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)

    Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)

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    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...

    Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich)
  • 2007
    Norma

    Norma

    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...

    Norma
  • 2009
    Adriana Lecouvreur

    Adriana Lecouvreur

    Adriana Lecouvreur

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    In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most...

    Adriana Lecouvreur
  • 1982
    Verdi: Requiem

    Verdi: Requiem

    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,...

    Verdi: Requiem
  • 2000
    Dichterliebe

    Dichterliebe

    Dichterliebe

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    In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital...

    Dichterliebe
  • 2014
    Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

    Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

    Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

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    Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
  • 2007
    Verdi: La Traviata

    Verdi: La Traviata

    Verdi: La Traviata

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    Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society,...

    Verdi: La Traviata
  • 2006
    The Marriage of Figaro

    The Marriage of Figaro

    The Marriage of Figaro

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    Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart...

    The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1988
    La Boheme

    La Boheme

    La Boheme

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    Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...

    La Boheme
  • 1999
    The Damnation of Faust

    The Damnation of Faust

    The Damnation of Faust

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    The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing...

    The Damnation of Faust
  • 2014
    Wagner: Siegfried

    Wagner: Siegfried

    Wagner: Siegfried

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    In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the epic tale. The energetic drive from...

    Wagner: Siegfried
  • 1987
    Der einsame Weg

    Der einsame Weg

    Der einsame Weg

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    Der einsame Weg
  • 2006
    Handel: Admeto

    Handel: Admeto

    Handel: Admeto

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    Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skillful application of...

    Handel: Admeto
  • 1989
    Elektra

    Elektra

    Elektra

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    Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of...

    Elektra