Arthaus Musik Movies

  • 2000
    Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)

    Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)

    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,...

    Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
  • 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
  • 2014
    A Swan Lake

    A Swan Lake

    A Swan Lake

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    The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince...

    A Swan Lake
  • 2004
    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly

    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...

    Madama Butterfly
  • 1989
    Die Soldaten

    Die Soldaten

    Die Soldaten

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    Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall. Michael Ebbecke is sympathetic as...

    Die Soldaten
  • 2013
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

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    The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 1987
    Wozzeck

    Wozzeck

    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...

    Wozzeck
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    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...

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
  • 2013
    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

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    Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend....

    Wagner: Die Walküre
  • 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
  • 1975
    Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin)

    Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin)

    Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin)

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    The Marriage of Figaro that received its premiere on 26 February 1975 in the Komische Oper Berlin was Walter Felsenstein’s last production and...

    Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin)
  • 1987
    Der einsame Weg

    Der einsame Weg

    Der einsame Weg

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    Der einsame Weg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2000
    Les Troyens

    Les Troyens

    Les Troyens

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    Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambreling conducts, with performances by...

    Les Troyens
  • 2017
    Pierre Boulez Saal – Opening Concert

    Pierre Boulez Saal – Opening Concert

    Pierre Boulez Saal – Opening Concert

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    Contents Boulez: Initiale /Boulez Ensemble (chamber ensemble) Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller) Anna Prohaska (soprano),...

    Pierre Boulez Saal – Opening Concert
  • 2004
    Der Rosenkavalier

    Der Rosenkavalier

    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...

    Der Rosenkavalier