Franz Grundheber

The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu (2015)

William Kentridge's multi-layered production of Berg's masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose l ...

Alban Berg: Lulu (2012)

Vera Nemirova's challenging production of Berg's operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2010. It was successfully repeated in 2011, when the production was filmed for DVD. Supporting Nemirova's powerful v ...

Lulu (2011)

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead. ...

Hunter's Bride (2010)

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie for the heart of the same woman. ...

Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier (2009)

Herbert Wernicke's production of Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier", filmed live at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 31 January 2009. Renée Fleming is the Marschallin, Diana Damrau is Sophie, Sophie Koch is Octavian, Franz Hawlata is Baron Ochs, Franz ...

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (2008)

Der Rosenkavalier (2004)

This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg. It stars Adrianne Pieczonka as Feldmarschallin, Franz Hawlata as Baron Ochs, Angelika Kirchschlager as ...

Wozzeck (1994)

Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress Marie. ...

The Flying Dutchman (1989)

lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a skipper who's been banished to sea for all eternity. Staged in a large outdoor courtyard inside Finland's Olavinlinna Castle, the production features German sin ...

Elektra (1989)

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 live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of ...

Wozzeck (1987)

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle migh ...

Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1986)

Wozzeck (1972)

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film. ...

Zar und Zimmermann (1969)

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love. ...

Help, Help, the Globolinks! (1969)

The world's only psychedelic children's opera about an alien invasion. ...

Weber: Der Freischütz (1968)

Director Rolf Liebermann's 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber's opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an adapted stage version. Soloists include Bernhard Minetti, Toni Blankenheim and Arlene Saunders. The conductor is Leopold Lu ...