Arthaus Musik Movies
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2012
Aida
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- 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,...
- 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...
- 2000
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 2006
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...
- 2013
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....
- 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...
- 1989
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...