Arthaus Musik Movies
- 2012
Aida
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- 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...
- 1985
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...
- 2014
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...
- 1962
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...
- 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,...
- 1988
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...
- 1989
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...
- 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...
- 1966
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Komische Oper Berlin)
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This is released as part of Art Haus' Walter Felsenstein edition. Felsenstein, a contemporary of Bertold Brecht, ran the East German Komische Oper...
- 2001
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)
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Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for...
- 1970
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.
- 1993
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...
- 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...
- 2009
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...
- 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...
- 2011
Alcina
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The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has created a magnificent palace in a beautiful landscape,...
- 2004
Der Rosenkavalier
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This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus...
- 2001
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso
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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...
- 1998
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
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Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records...