Franz Welser-Möst

New Year's Concert 2023 (2023)

For the 65 time Live traditional New Year's concert from the beautiful Musikverein in Vienna. The concert, broadcast in 90 countries and reaching an audience of over 40 million people, features, as usual, polkas, waltzes and overtures from the Strauss cla ...

Igor Levit: No Fear (2022)

Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven", as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist. ...

The Cleveland Orchestra Centennial Celebration (2018)

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.1, 2 & 3 (The Cleveland Orchestra) (2018)

Brahms Symphonies 1-3. In 2014, Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in Symphony No. 1 at the Royal Albert Hall, London and Symphonies 2 and 3 at the Musikverein Golden Hall, Vienna. This disc is also available as part of a box set with Brah ...

Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto Symphony No. 4 (Julia Fischer) (2018)

Brahms' rousing Academic Festival Overture and Violin Concerto op. 77 bear witness to a composer at the height of his abilities, a mature master of large-scale masterpieces. The Violin Concerto demands extreme technical proficiency. As if to exemplify this ...

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1,2 (Yefim Bronfman) (2018)

Yefim Bronfman has the uncanny ability to play large without stridency, to handle the most delicate passages without losing presence, and to play everything in between with a ravishing sense of tonal colour. In the Second Piano Concerto Welser-Möst and Br ...

Beethoven: Fidelio - Salzburg Festival (2015)

The Girl of the Golden West (2013)

A celebrated new production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Nina Stemme. Staged by Marco Arturo Marelli, who sets it in a modern-day mining village, with the feel of a gritty modern drama, during ...

New Year's Concert 2013 (2013)

New Year's Concert 2013 ...

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 (2012)

Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2010 (2010)

Katie Derham presents the Vienna Philharmonic's spectacular Summer-night Concert in the grounds of Schonbrunn Palace. Franz Welser-Most conducts a programme on the theme of the sun, moon and the stars, including music by Holst, Liszt and John Williams. As ...

Cosi fan tutte (2010)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2009)

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, September, 2008. Also included is an introduction by Welser-Möst. ...

W.A. Mozart, Don Giovanni. Opernhaus Zürich (2007)

La Clemenza di Tito (2005)

This is an effective staging, though the set looks medieval and the costumes are modern. It's well paced, well played, well sung. Jonas Kaufmann is an ideal Tito. His voice is not only beautiful and flexible, it's also ample, retaining warmth and sweetness ...

Pelléas et Mélisande (2004)

Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered i ...

Macbeth (2001)

This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy to vivid life, characterized by spine-tingling atmospherics and a triumphant debut by American baritone Thomas Hampson in the ti ...

Die Zauberflöte (2000)

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte. ...

Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask (1993)

Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries. ...

Puccini: Il trittico (2022)

Elektra (2020)

Celebrate the triumphant return of the famed Salzburg Festival with this extraordinary production of Richard Strauss's Elektra, live from the spectacular Felsenreitschule! Lithuanian soprano Aušrinė Stundytė makes her grand debut on the mythical festiva ...

Die Fledermaus - WIENER STAATSOPER (2019)

To avoid serving his prison sentence, a fashionable socialite sneaks off to a lavish party. The champagne flows as guests waltz the night away, but several of them have something to hide. This internationally renowned production by Otto Schenk takes the a ...

Strauss: Salome (2018)

The story is set at the beginning of the Christian era on a large terrace of Herod's palace, during the reign of Herod Antipas. At night, on a terrace of the palace, Salome, Herod's stepdaughter, is gazed at passionately by Narraboth, captain of the guard. ...

Beethoven: Fidelio - Salzburg Festival (2015)

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (2014)

With their "musical comedy" in the spirit of Mozart, Richard Strauss and his brilliant librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal created the most popular of all their works and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time. Disguised as a refined comedy, ...

Fierrabras (2007)

Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Chanson de Roland and the legend of the love between Eginhard and Emma. Live performance from 2007 at the Opernhaus Zürich. ...

Arabella (2007)

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Arabella is determined to marry for love, not wealth - against the wishes of her impo ...

The Merry Widow (2005)

Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta is desperate that the fabulously wealthy widow Hanna Glavari marry a Pontevedrian man so that her fortune remain ...

Berg: Lulu (2004)

Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals. On the one hand, this is due to the dubious character of the subject, the man-eating femme fatale, which Berg had taken from F ...

Johann Strauss: Simplicius (2003)

Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien. Neither an opera nor an operetta, it was a work that did not fit into any of the pre-defined categories. On ...

Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich) (2002)

When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and the husbands rage with jealousy. These may be silly clichés, but they are the subject of IL TURCO IN ITALIA ...

Little Red Riding Hood (1995)

Roald Dahl's version of Little Red Riding Hood ...