Anne Sofie von Otter

Mikael Karlsson : Melancholia (2023)

At her wedding reception, the beautiful but depressed Justine spots a red star in the sky. It is the planet Melancholia, which is on a collision course with Earth. The bridegroom Michael tries to calm her down with his love, her mother Gaby poisons her wit ...

The Queen of Spades - La Monnaie (2022)

In love with an unknown lady, a young soldier discovers that her grandmother holds a secret to win at cards. Although his beloved shares his feelings, happiness slips out of reach when his obsession with the powerful secret drives him to madness. ...

Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter (2021)

The traditional Christmas concert enchants every year with classic and popular Christmas music from all over the world. The most touching program highlights of the Vienna Christmas Concert. ...

Benny och kulturhuset (2021)

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life. ...

Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 (2020)

Offenbach's mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of 'Public Opinion' falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus ...

Amours divins ! (2016)

The most famous Scenes and Arias from French operas ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2015)

A major work from the remarkable partnership of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, Mahagonny was first performed in Leipzig in 1930. Its first ever Royal Opera staging, by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames, is sung in Engl ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Teatro Real Madrid) (2015)

Opera fantastique in five acts (1881), new version by Sylvain Cambreling & Christoph Marthaler. With Eric Cutler and Anne Sofie Von Otter. ...

A Late Quartet (2012)

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friend ...

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012)

Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When Prince Golaud, grandson of King of Allemonde, meets the beautiful Mélisande, he knows nothing about her. T ...

Bizet: Carmen (2008)

Written by Georges Bizet, on a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Carmen premiered at Opera Comique in Paris, France on March 3, 1875. The opera spurred mixed emotions amongst critics and casual operagoers. As a result, numerous planned perform ...

The Blu-ray Experience: Opera & Ballet (2008)

Including world-class artists such as Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura, Simon Keenlyside and Agnes Letestu, this 50-minute sampler will give you a taste of many beloved classics in opera and ballet. ...

Georges Bizet: Carmen (2004)

Carmen (2002)

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, an ...

Anne Sofie von Otter: A Northern Star (2001)

A profile of mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. ...

L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2000)

Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille Delunsch, Anne Sofie Vo ...

Alceste (1999)

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck's 1776 French version of "Alceste" at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soprano Anne Sofie von Otter takes the title role of Alceste, Queen of Thessaly, who offers to die at the hands of the gods in place of her husban ...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1997 (1997)

The annual New Year's Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year's Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farew ...

Der Rosenkavalier (1994)

Felicity Lott, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, and Kurt Moll star in this production of Richard Strauss' opera, staged in Vienna in 1994. A romantic comedy of errors. Princess von Werdenberg must hide her affair with Octavian from her family; when he disguises himse ...

Mozart Requiem and Mass In C Minor (1993)

Two of Mozart's best-loved choral works - the 1791 Requiem, and the Mass in C minor, both of which were unfinished when he died. Performed at the Palau de la Mùsica Catalana in Barcelona in December 1991 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's de ...

Handel: Messiah the 250th Anniversary Performance (1992)

Sir Neville Marriner conducts this 250th Anniversary performance. Soloists include Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie Van Otter. The performance is supported by an informative background film "For Ever and Ever", explaining the circumstances behind the composition ...

The Damnation of Faust (1989)

This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of Londons famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berliozs concert cantata. This feast of Berlioz ...