Kent Nagano

Zappa (2020)

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands o ...

Chaakapesh (2020)

In fall 2018, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal created the chamber opera Chaakapesh, a lighthearted story of the hero who founded the Innu people sung in three languages (Innu, Cree and Inuktitut) by Florent Vollant, Ernest Webb and Akinisie Sivuarap ...

Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making (2020)

Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius of tones. Such great conductors like Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev and Simon Rattle let the composer comes ali ...

Le diable en canot d'écorce (2017)

The Mission of Nagano (2017)

Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life (2016)

The document explores Leonard Bernstein's various facets as a conductor, a composer, a pianist and most of all a teacher and how he influenced so many people. It includes interviews of his children, former conductor students, orchestra members, collabrator ...

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa's world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in t ...

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (2012)

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky's son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of so ...

Fred Pellerin : La tuque en mousse de nombril (2011)

The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as it surprises. He tells Christmas in his own way, through his stories featuring the protagonists of the smal ...

OSM - La Maison Symphonique - Opus No 1 (2011)

Kent Nagano: Montréal Symphony (2011)

Symphonie de Noël (2010)

Dialogues des Carmelites (2010)

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions like Eugene Onegin and Macbeth at the Paris Opera and Don Giovanni at Aix-en- Provence. The superb internat ...

Wagner - Lohengrin (2009)

Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend the princess Elsa - wrongly accused of the murder of her brother. Highlights of Wagner's most lyrical score include the famous Wedding March, which accompa ...

A Night Of Rhythm & Dance (Waldbühne 2000) (2006)

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's annual summer concert at the Waldbühne in Berlin is legendary. The Millennium concert, recorded live on 25 June 2000, gathered more than 22.000 people in one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheaters in Europe for one ...

Hollywoods Oper - Eine Oper für Los Angeles (2006)

Documentary about opera in Hollywood. ...

Mythos Mozart - Musik für die Welt (2006)

Documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

Parsifal (2005)

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director. ...

Parsifal's Progress (2005)

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips of the live performances provide a documentary analysis of the opera on the quest fo ...

Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1992)

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of ...

Richard Strauss: Salome - Staatsoper Hamburg (2023)

Missa Solemnis im Kölner Dom (2021)

La tuque en mousse de nombril (2011)

Dialogues des Carmelites (2010)

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions like Eugene Onegin and Macbeth at the Paris Opera and Don Giovanni at Aix-en- Provence. The superb internat ...

Wagner - Lohengrin (2009)

Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend the princess Elsa - wrongly accused of the murder of her brother. Highlights of Wagner's most lyrical score include the famous Wedding March, which accompa ...

Mozart: Idomeneo (2009)

With this wonderful production, Mozart's "Munich" opera returns to the place where it was first performed in 1781, the lovingly restored Cuvilliés Theatre, a veritable jewel of Rococo architecture. In Dieter Dorn's production, the characters are real peop ...

Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland (2008)

A live recording of the premier of Korean composer Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera at National Theater Munich in June 2007. It is a modern opera based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel of the same name. The amazing characters Alice meets are portraye ...

Mussorgsky: Khovanschina (2007)

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music. Kent Nagano rises magnificently to the challenges presented by this score. And Dmitri Tcherniakov's fascinati ...

A Night Of Rhythm & Dance (Waldbühne 2000) (2006)

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's annual summer concert at the Waldbühne in Berlin is legendary. The Millennium concert, recorded live on 25 June 2000, gathered more than 22.000 people in one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheaters in Europe for one ...

Lohengrin (2006)

At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner's LOHENGRIN, the third of the German composer's main operas. This production stars an incredible cast, including Hans-Peter König, Klaus Florian ...

The Cunning Little Vixen (2003)

An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life of Sharp-Ears, a fox who is captured by a forester as a cub and raised in his home prior to escaping back ...

Owen Wingrave (2001)

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As per ...

John Adams: A Portrait and A Concert of Modern American Music (2000)

Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself. Highlights include performances of Adams's Grammy Award-w ...

John Adams: El Niño (2000)

Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio from composer John Adams tells the magical story of the birth of Christ. Conducted by renowned maestro Kent ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1993)

Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon. ...

The Love for Three Oranges (1989)

With neat, plain building-block designs by Jacques Rapp, Louis Erlo's energetically-staged production of Prokofiev's surreal fairy-tale for the Lyon Opera is full of cartoon characters and swift farce. Based on a play by Carlo Gozzi, "L'Amour des Trois Ora ...

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such song ...

The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford. ...