Daniel Barenboim

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Vivace (2023)

The child prodigy turns 60! At the tender age of 13, Anne-Sophie Mutter was discovered by star conductor Herbert von Karajan. An unprecedented world career followed. She once said of herself: "If you want to get to know me, you have to experience me on sta ...

Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz (2022)

The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - ...

Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2022 (2022)

New Year's Concert 2022 (2022)

Petroc Trelawny hosts the traditional start to the year with a concert live from the golden hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. ...

Daniel Barenboim: In his Own Words (2021)

Legendary conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim speaks more candidly than he has ever done before about his life and music. Told entirely through interviews with the maestro, the film starts with his earliest musical experiences as a child piano prodigy i ...

Arthur Rubinstein - Das Abschiedskonzert: Sternstunden der Musik (2021)

Geburtstagskonzert für Zubin Mehta zum 85. - Aus der Staatsoper Berlin (2021)

250 Jahre Ludwig van Beethoven - Das Jubiläumskonzert aus der Oper Bonn (2020)

Beethoven privat (2020)

To mark Beethoven's 250th birthday, the documentary sheds light on the composer's private side, linking his writings with his music in an original way. Beethoven's many letters and notes tell of his temperament, his love affairs, his humanism and his strug ...

Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele (2020)

Concert Privé chez Daniel Barenboim (2020)

Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (2020)

Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma, who recorded the masterpiece Beethoven Triple Concerto with Karajan over 40 years ago, now release a new recording with Barenboim as part of the Beethoven 250th anniversary project. Recorded during concerts in Buenos Aires ...

Festkonzert "450 Jahre Staatskapelle Berlin" (2020)

Cecilia Bartoli & Friends (2019)

Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera's biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. With interviews from her illustrious friends and colleagues from the world of classical music: Daniel Barenboim, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel and ...

New Year's Eve Concert 2018 - Berlin Philharmonic (2018)

The conductor of this New Year's Eve concert is Daniel Barenboim, one of the Berliner Philharmoniker's oldest friends. He also takes on the role of soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 – a work of sparkling beauty and nuanced expression. There are a ...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2018 (2018)

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 ...

Music and Power (2018)

Music is not "just" music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger highlights interesting and very current themes about the links between music and politics. ...

Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words (2017)

A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive footage shot during Jacqueline du Pré's lifetime which captures some glorious and professionally filmed live per ...

Schumann - Scenes from Goethe's Faust (2017)

The Berlin State Opera is back at its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After extensive renovations, it was reopened with Schumann's scenes from Goethe's Faust under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (2014)

"Clarity was one thing that made this performance a marvel. Another was the flexibility of Barenboim's speeds…. The flexibility of Barenboim's tempi meant that Bruckner's charm – an often overlooked aspect of his genius – shone through, especially in ...

Europakonzert 2014 from Berlin (2014)

Otto Nicolai: Overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Edward Elgar: Falstaff in C minor, Op. 68 Piotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2014)

In Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony, the listener encounters a music characterized by great spaciousness and profound solemnity, a music which speaks of grief and lamentation, but also of their transcendence. With its monumental architecture and intensity of ...

New Year's Concert 2014 (2014)

Daniel Barenboim conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the 2014 News Year's Concert, an annual celebration that showcases classics by the venerable Strauss family and the light music of other composers. True to tradition, this concert offers selections by J ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 (2014)

Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony was written between 1879 and 1881: a very happy time in his life. Unlike most of Bruckner's symphonies, the 6th was not revised. Of all his works, this one seems to come from a single source of inspiration. Bruckner himself ca ...

Il Trovatore (2013)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this production of Verdi's opera starring Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo. The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy but still hopes that he ma ...

Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert (2013)

With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company of Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He starts with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor (No. 3) and ends with Tchaikovsky's Piano No. 1 with an E ...

Do or Die: Lang Lang's Story (2012)

Beethoven Symphonies 1-9: Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (2012)

Daniel Barenboim directs his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London – and becomes the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to survey all nine symphonies in a single Proms season. His dynamic West–Eastern Divan Orchestra – famously bringing tog ...

Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (2012)

In this recording, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim tackles the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas, composed over twenty-five years and embodying the shift of musical ...

Barenboim on Beethoven: Nine Symphonies that Changed the World (2012)

This film gains a unique insight into the nine symphonies, as well as the musicians' views on the difficulties and delights of performing these inimitable works. Captured within the documentary, Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra take th ...

Mozart - Berliner Philharmoniker - Radek Baborák - Daniel Barenboim (2012)

Barenboim plays Mozart (2012)

The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos. The music of Mozart has quite literally been an essential driving force of Daniel Barenboim's entire life. ...

Chopin: The Chopin Piano Concertos (2011)

Salzburg Festival Opening Concert (2011)

This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated its 90th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Great Festival Hall. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus State Oper ...

Dudamel: El sonido de los ninos (2011)

Hundreds of children and youth orchestras around the world are emerging musical inspired by the Venezuelan phenomenon known as "The System." This rebellion of thousands of children are being held internationally to give children everywhere the opportunity ...

Liszt Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim / Pierre Boulez - Staatskapelle Berlin (2011)

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2011)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in concert in Berlin, Vienna, and New York. Also included is a 22 minute documentary on the musical world of Mahler as seen by Barenboim and Pierre Boulez. ...

Chopin: The Warsaw Recital - Daniel Barenboim (2011)

Frédéric Chopin was born on 1 March 1810 in a small village near Warsaw, and on the eve of the 200th anniversary of this date Daniel Barenboim gave this wildly acclaimed Warsaw recital as part of an extensive European tour. The program comprised some of ...

Barenboim dirige Concierto por Europa (2011)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (2010)

The Süddeutsche Zeitung summed up this highly acclaimed performance of Bruckner's monumental Fifth Symphony by saying: Both Bruckners belief in God, as it majestically wells up out of the chorale of the Fifth, and his deeply tragic world view, collide wit ...

Europakonzert 2010 from Oxford (2010)

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude to Act III Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. ...

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2010)

Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers works: This time he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckners mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim's performance of the works wi ...

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (2010)

With nearly 450 years of tradition, the Staatskapelle Berlin is one of the oldest orchestras in the world. Daniel Barenboim has served as its music director since 1992, and in 2000 the orchestra appointed him Chief Conductor for Life. Having already perfor ...

Barenboim The Warsaw Recital (2010)

Chopin Year 2010 coincides with the 60th anniversary of Daniel Barenboims stage début, and as a pianist he has decided to devote this year to the great Romantic master of the keyboard. Fryderyc Chopin was born on 1 March 1810 in a small village near Warsa ...

The Gambler (2009)

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. ...

New Year's Concert 2009 (2009)

The ever popular New Year's Concert from Vienna returns in another sparkling performance, broadcast live to over 50 countries! Daniel Barenboim makes his New Year's Concert debut and brings with him a number of works that have never been performed at the c ...

Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me (2008)

Waltraud Meier is "La Wagnerissima", the queen of Wagner's repertoire. In her very personal account "I follow a voice within me", we enter her world and learn about her motivations, aspirations, and her joyful way of pursuing them. In addition to personal ...

Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass (2007)

Barenboim presents master classes with the world's most notable young pianists, where the legendary man imparts his wisdom to the next generation. ...

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen (2007)

What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts. ...

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert (2007)

Recorded live at the Frederic R. ...

Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin (2007)

In 2005, legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas over 8 concerts in 2 weeks at the Staatsoper in Berlin. These definitive performances were lavishly filmed and beautifully produced, and are now presented here in a. ...

Daniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 (2007)

If Daniel Barenboim is not the world's greatest living classical musician he is certainly the most versatile. In a career spanning more than 50 years, his name is attached to many of the celebrated recordings of opera, symphony, small ensemble and piano so ...

Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2006)

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic, Columbia University academic, and outspoken advocate for displaced Palestinians, of whom he was one. Explor ...

Europakonzert 2006 from Prague (2006)

Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K.385 "Haffner"; Horn concerto No. 1, K.412; Piano concerto No. 22, K.482; Symphony Nr. 36, K. ...

Knowledge Is the Beginning (2005)

Knowledge is the Beginning is the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, where young Arabs and Jews perform and live side by side. It is a film about what music can do; the way it can transcend cultural barriers, bring people together, defeat prejudice ...

We Want the Light (2004)

The struggles of the world's Jewish people over the course of several centuries are expressed and explored through the music they inspired in this documentary from the BBC and Opus Arte. We Want the Light brings together harrowing tales from Holocaust surv ...

A Labyrinth of Time (2004)

Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his music and the musical tradition it grew out of, as well as the time in which the American Carter grew up. The r ...

Europakonzert 2004 from Athens (2004)

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 15; Piano Quartet No. 1 arranged for orchestra by A. ...

Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2003)

World-renowned maestro Claudio Abbado opens up about his life and work in this profile that effectively combines images of the conductor in rehearsal and in concert and interviews with friends, colleagues and Abbado himself. The video includes footage of B ...

Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano (2003)

The music is not Beethoven's most familiar, but it is absolutely charming. The concerto is appealing in its melodic material and the intricate interactions among the soloists and orchestra. The Choral Fantasy features a long piano solo that Beethoven wrote ...

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2001 (2001)

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 ...

Sibelius - Violin Concerto / De Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain (2000)

Sibelius's solitary concerto is one of the most passionate tests for the violin virtuoso, one to which Maxim Vengerov is more than equal. He captures the work's passion and its occasional quirky patches of the spookily sublime. His performances of the "Sar ...

The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of 20th Century (1999)

This is a film that encapsulates the essence of a great pianistic age that married virtuosity and musicianship with the most thrilling aspect of individual showmanship. ...

In Search of Palestine: Edward Said's Return Home (1998)

For Palestinian expatriate Edward Said, the return to his homeland amounted to a painful inquiry into his past. This program captures the interconnection between Said's personal recollections and the shared memory of the Palestinian people. Far from ignori ...

Europakonzert 1997 from Versailles (1997)

Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto K. ...

The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth. ...

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1996)

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau's third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first con ...

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996)

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arnold Schonberg, Kammersinfonie no. 1 E-Major op. 9 (Filmed in Venice, Gran Teatro La Fenice, in February 19 ...

Beethoven: Triple Concerto And Choral Fantasy (1995)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto' and 'Choral Fantasy'. Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma are joined by Carola Höhn, Katherina Kammerloher, Andrea Bönig and Endrick Wottrich, amongst others. ...

Tristan und Isolde (1995)

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Staged by Heiner Müller, it stars Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Poul Elming and Uta Priew, and feature ...

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow (1994)

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brigh ...

Europakonzert 1994 from Meiningen (1994)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 73 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major op. ...

European Concert 1994 (1994)

European Concert 1994 From the Staatstheater Meiningen. ...

Beethoven/Brahms - Violin Concertos (Perlman, Barenboim) (1992)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Beethoven and Brahms Violin Concertos with the soloist Itzhak Perlman. ...

Europakonzert 1992 from Madrid (1992)

Guiseppe Verdi: Overture from "La forza del destino" Carlo's recitative and aria from "Don Carlos" Hector Berlioz: Excerpts from "La Damnation de Faust" Franz Schubert: Symphony No. ...

Parsifal (1992)

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the Berlin State Opera in 1992. The cast is made up of the finest Wagnerian singers of the period, all of whom en ...

Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, András Schiff - Mozart concertos for 2 & 3 pianos (1991)

Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, András Schiff and the English Chamber Orchestra play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 "Jeunehomme" (two pianos) and Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453 (three pianos). ...

Mozart Last 8 Piano Concertos (Daniel Barenboim) (1989)

The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos. The music of Mozart has quite literally been an essential driving force of Daniel Barenboim's entire life. ...

Das Mauerkonzert (1989)

Berlioz, Te Deum (1981)

The Trout (1970)

Christopher Nupen's record of the concert given by five young musicians in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank, in 1969. The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself, who wrote his famous ...

The Ghost (1970)

This performance in May 1970, at St. John's Smith Square, was filmed before the onset of Jacqueline du Pré's illness in the early days of the Barenboim/du Pré/Zukerman Trio, which promised to become one of the great Piano Trios of all time. They play Bee ...

Mis noches con Julia (2019)

The postcard is diffuse, but in the memory there are flashes of clarity. They appear in the scene: they chat, they meet again and they recognize in each other's eyes and words. Expectant for what may happen in the future, they decide to talk about the past ...

Verdi: Macbeth (2019)

After winning in battle, Commander Macbeth receives a prophesy that he will one day become King of Scotland. Influenced by the whisperings of his wife, he literally stops at nothing to fulfil the prophesy. But racked by guilt, the Macbeths soon sink into d ...

Verdi: Falstaff (2018)

Falstaff is Verdi's masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor's. In this performance stage and film direct ...

Macbeth (2018)

Giuseppe Verdi's powerful opera Macbeth sees a barnstorming staging by legendary stage director Harry Kupfer at the newly reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden. ...

Schumann - Scenes from Goethe's Faust (2017)

The Berlin State Opera is back at its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After extensive renovations, it was reopened with Schumann's scenes from Goethe's Faust under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. ...

Parsifal (2016)

Wagner's mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner's last opera, Parsifal is a medieval epic story marked by Christian, Buddhist and esoteric references. It is about redemp ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni - La Scala (2015)

An all-star cast featuring Deutsche Grammophon artist Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel and Anna Prohaska, delivers a sensational new recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni, conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the start of his inaugural season as Music Director of La Sc ...

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (2015)

The argument is based on an historical case. In the suburbs of Moscow, reigned around 1571 Tsar Ivan IV, 'the Terrible'. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife for the third time. He chooses the young Marfa; she loves another man but bends to the will of th ...

Berg: Lulu (2015)

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death ...

Beethoven · Fidelio (2014)

A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization of the woman-bride was heartfelt and sincere. It has always been a unique opera starring a courageous wife who wows audiences. Fidelio is a moral title, as ...

Tannhäuser (2014)

A brand new production of ''Tannhäuser'' at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has already staged Purcell and Berlioz, Dusapin, Rihm and Hosokawa. Now Sasha Waltz brings to the stage a grand r ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2014)

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent creatures, involved with and possibly doomed by their traffic with the gods, find treachery and evil in the world of the huma ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2014)

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 Die Walküre is pursued here while Siegfried finally recaptures the mighty ring from Fafner the Dragon and awakens Brünn ...

Messiah (2013)

This is an exhilarating experience both visually and aurally. How wonderful that Barenboim is havng such success with Verdi this late in his career.The excitement and power is there in all the big movements and the tempi shouldn't upset anyone. There is cl ...

Daniel Barenboim 70th Birthday Concert (2013)

With family and friends present, Daniel Barenboim celebrates his seventieth birthday in the company of Zubin Mehta, and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He starts with Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor (No. 3) and ends with Tchaikovsky's Piano No. 1 with an E ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2011)

Don Juan sins with his servant and is doomed in this tragicomic opera. ...

Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano (2010)

Opera di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano. ...

Carmen (2009)

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 . ...

Jules Massenet: Manon (2008)

Director Vincent Paterson creates an energetic staging with dramatic visual magnificence of Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," which is set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century. Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazón deliver mesmerizin ...

Tristan und Isolde (2007)

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological music drama Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro alla Scala in 2007. It stars Ian Storey, Waltraud Meier, Matti Salmine ...

Eugene Onegin (2007)

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends adde ...

Massenet: Manon (2007)

Massenet's opera centres on its charming but contrary heroine, the vivacious young Manon who longs for luxury and excitement. We first encounter her en route to a convent, where her family are sending her to be educated. Along the way, she falls in love w ...

Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2006)

Documentary filmmaker Makoto Sato offers this reflection on the life and career of Edward Said, the deeply influential literary and cultural critic, Columbia University academic, and outspoken advocate for displaced Palestinians, of whom he was one. Explor ...

Carmen (2006)

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin und ...

Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte (2002)

Dorothea Roeschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, Hanno Mueller-Brachmann, Werner Guera, Daniela Bruera, and Roman Trekel star in this 2002 Deutsche Staatsoper production of the Mozart opera conducted by Daniel Barenboim. ...

Otello (2001)

One of the chief pleasures of this live production of Otello from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden is Daniel Barenboim's conducting. From the opening gale-force blast of storm music, through the crunching and stabbing accompaniment of Iago's "Credo" ...

The Nutcracker (1999)

Live from the State Opera Under the Linden, Berlin 1999. Choreographed by Patrice Bart. ...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1999)

A classic production from the Bayreuth Festival is made available here for the first time on DVD! Staged and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang Wagner at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1999, this production of Wagner's only comic opera features a ...

Le nozze di Figaro (1999)

Le Lac des Cygnes (1998)

Tristan und Isolde (1995)

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Staged by Heiner Müller, it stars Siegfried Jerusalem, Waltraud Meier, Poul Elming and Uta Priew, and feature ...

The Ring Cycle: Siegfried (1992)

SECOND DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Alberich's brother Mime raises the orphan Siegfried, hoping that Siegfried will kill Fafner and enable Mime to gain the ring. Mime attempts unsuccessfully to reforge the Nothung. Fulfilling prophecy, Siegfried reforges the swo ...

The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure (1992)

FIRST DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Fleeing for his life, Siegmund seeks shelter at Sieglinde's house. Her husband Hunding happens to be one of Siegmund's pursuers, and the two of them must cross swords the next day. As Siegmund laments his lack of a weapon, Sieg ...

The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold (1991)

PRELIMINARY EVENINING OF THE RING CYCLE. Upon the banks of the ageless river Rhine, the Rhinemaidens play. Alberich, a Nibelung dwarf, tries vainly to seduce one of them. To taunt him, they reveal their secret: out of the gold they guard one can forge a Ri ...

The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung (1991)

THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde and fall in love with Günter's sister Gutrane. Siegfried has given Brünnhilde the Ring as a token of their love, ...

Tristan und Isolde (1983)

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble performance of René Kollo, Johanna Meier and Matti Salminen ...