Marc Minkowski

Platée (Palais Garnier) (2022)

Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platée is a masterpiece of the French operatic repertoire and was highly regarded by critics during the composer's lifetime. Composed for the marriage of the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV, to the Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain, it w ...

Händel / Mozart: Der Messias (2020)

Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart's adaption of Handel's Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernise the score fifty years after H ...

Thomas: Hamlet (2016)

The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder of his father, Hamlet opposes the marriage of his mother and his uncle, at the expense of his beloved and himself ...

Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide / Iphigenie en Tauride (2013)

Before the Trojan War, Agamemnon gathered the Greek armies at the port of Aulis. The goddess Diane sent unfavorable winds to prevent the Greeks from sailing. Her oracle set a condition for Agamemnon: to earn the right to sail forth and destroy an innocent ...

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (2004)

Live performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2004. Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Stage direction by Laurent Pelly. ...

Platée (2002)

The prologue sets the stage for the action: Thespis, Momus and Thalie announce the subject of the play. It is a comedy mocking the folly of man...and the story of a trap set by Jupiter to cure Juno of her jealousy. The trap? It consists in convincing the w ...

La Belle Hélène (2000)

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he seems to still retain the Offenbach magic. La Lott and Monsieur Beuron are a joy, but so is everyone else. The Patriotic Trio by the sea is both ...

Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (1997)

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival. Director Francois Abou Salem brings a modern Middle Eastern sensibility to this journey into Arabian and Muslim cultu ...

Orphée aux enfers (1997)

Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 production of Offenbach's opera starring Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and Laurent Naouri. ...

Requiem de Mozart (2017)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Marc Minkowski at Mozartwoche (2016)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K219 'Turkish' Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' - 4th Movement Mozart: Violin Sonata No. ...

Alcina (2011)

The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has created a magnificent palace in a beautiful landscape, to lure her many lovers into her power. One of these is Ruggiero, a warrior, who under Alcina's spell has f ...

Mireille (2010)

In 2009, Frédéric Mistral's tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of Gounod's 1864 opera Mireille. Nicolas Joel's naturalistic staging frames the accomplished performances of Albanian soprano Inva Mula as Mir ...

Don Quichotte (2010)

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. It is beautiful in every way--vocally, scenically, sonically, and visually--and ...

Mitridate Re Di Ponto (2006)

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is truly visionary and other worldly and gives a convincing insight into what staged operas must have looked like during the Baroque and Rococo period. Singers ...

Platée (2002)

The prologue sets the stage for the action: Thespis, Momus and Thalie announce the subject of the play. It is a comedy mocking the folly of man...and the story of a trap set by Jupiter to cure Juno of her jealousy. The trap? It consists in convincing the w ...

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 ...