Richard Wagner

Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Die Walküre (2025)

On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love that has the power to destroy entire worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle erupts between the ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter Brünnhilde. ...

Antediluvian (2024)

A commemorative homage to classic Paleoart in animation form. ...

Tristan und Isolde (2024)

Production Bayreuth 2024. There is no arrival in Tristan and Isolde, only the longing for the unattainable, for the place "where the end of deception promised me my heart". Two people who strive to fall out of the roles ascribed to them, to escape the supp ...

Echo Sonata (2023)

In the 1950s, a communist country. The film follows a retired detective who investigates two enigmatic murders. Both murders are connected to a murder exposing an old secret about a corrupt officer that causes controversy throughout the city and alerts the ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2023)

Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions over the course of the journey performed by the characters, representing concretely such key elements of the Ring as water and fire. This symbolic r ...

Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold (2023)

When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner's Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera stage. ...

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Having paid the giants for building Valhalla with the ring stolen from Alberich, Wotan is determined to get it back. For if he fell ...

Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 (2023)

The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director. ...

Tristan und Isolde (2023)

In the vision of Philippe Grandrieux, the director of Tristan und Isolde, the latter is the driving force behind the passionate drama of Tristan and herself. She is an erotomaniac who wants to possess and swallow him whole. Philippe Grandrieux's direction ...

Maledictis (2023)

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism was constantly pursued by Securitate troops. ...

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2022)

A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner's Ring tetralogy. This epic production of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden sees a remarkable collaboration between Christian Thielemann, one of the most distingu ...

Playing with Gods (2022)

The documentary dives intimately behind the scenes of the Finnish National Opera and sucks the viewer in like the best of thrillers. The three hours fly by, even for those who aren't necessarily interested in opera as an art form. ...

Siegfried (Longborough Opera Festival 2022) (2022)

The hero Siegfried reforges his father's shattered sword, embarking on a quest for the greatest prize of all – the love of the valkyrie Brünnhilde, who lies trapped in a ring of fire. Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle De ...

Richard Wagner - Die Götterdämmerung - Bayreuther Festspiele 2022 (2022)

First Last Man (2022)

The journey of a man who seeks his very beginning as a human and his approaching end in humanity. In this journey his father, mother, brother, daughter and a mysterious voice accompany him. He tries to find the right way in the labyrinth of life, by follow ...

New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice (2022)

The world's largest classical music event. A blend of tradition and modernity, the 2022 edition of the New Year's Concert welcomes Daniel Barenboim to conduct one of the greatest orchestras in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic. ...

Parsifal (2021)

The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights. With the help of seductive women, above all Kundry, he succeeds in b ...

Wagner - Das Rheingold (Deutsche Oper Berlin) (2021)

The tetralogy of four operas that form Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) explores the conjunction of love and power in a mythic landscape in which true power resides in possession of the Ring. Composed over more than a quarter of a century ...

Yo, Diablo (2021)

Joey works as a waiter for a hedonistic community of summer holiday makers in a small Mediterranean paradise. It is unclear if their exaggerated behaviors are due to the fact that the summer is coming to an end or if its just the last of their summers. ...

The Infinite Confinement (2020)

In "Spaces #3", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book " ...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman (2020)

François Girard, whose revelatory 2013 take on Parsifal set the recent Met standard for Wagner stagings, now unveils a spellbinding new vision of the composer's tale of a cursed sea captain doomed to sail the open ocean for eternity. With sweeping sets by ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre (2019)

Soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan's willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera's most famous act of filial defiance. In this Live in HD transmission of Die Walküre, the second and most popular installment in the composer ...

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner's composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars' production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost dematerialised ...

The Binocle (2018)

A short film based on the short story "De Binocle" by Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It tells the story of a nervous man who on one evening while going to the opera becomes the victim of his own obsessive thoughts. ...

Lohengrin (2018)

'In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!' Richard Wagner himself understood the innovative character of his sixth piece of music theatre, completed in 1848, the year of revolutions. Although it is reckoned amo ...

The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid (2018)

Spectacular! Opera in three acts. Filmed at a series of outstanding performances at the Teatro Real de Madrid in December 2016, this recording will especially delight lovers of Wagnerian music drama with its faithful reflection of the grandiose staging of ...

The Opera House (2017)

In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera's storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an importan ...

Wagner: Die Walküre (2017)

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, ...

La Petite mort (2017)

When a virginal girl follows her lover into a mysterious forest, a twist of fate wrenches them apart forever. The girl struggles to be ever closer to him in this fairytale about sex, death, and pie. ...

Wagner: Parsifal (2017)

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of the title character's quest to save the Knights of the Holy Grail by returning the Holy Spear, healing King Amfortas, and carrying out the sacred ceremony of ...

Gott liebt ein menschliches Weib (2016)

He is not weak-willed tied to an unnatural law. He seeks the woman that absolutely loves him. It longs him for the only thing that frees him from his loneliness - for love. Is this a story of a virgin and her hero? ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde (2016)

Met audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński's gripping, visionary production of Wagner's epic opera. In the daunting title roles of the doomed lovers, Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton are passionate, overwhelming, and heartbreaking as they battle eve ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: Twilight of the Gods (2016)

"Oil is the equivalent of what used to be gold. A luxury that we cannot eat," explained director Frank Castorf in an interview, outlining one of the key ideas behind his production of the Ring at Bayreuth. In the final part of the tetralogy, the wild journ ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: Siegfried (2016)

Frank Castorf's Ring makes a feature of unexpected settings and striking images, and here in Siegfried he shows the discussions between the young hero and his foster father Mime in Act I against a background featuring giant heads of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie (2016)

The new Bayreuth production of the Ring Cycle that premiered in 2013 offered spectacular sets, courtesy of Aleksandar Denić. As is regularly the case in Frank Castorf's productions, live video recordings add an extra dimension and in this performance Die ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold (2016)

Frank Castorf revolutionised German-language theatre in the post-Berlin Wall era, bringing to the stage intellectual and political acuteness, brash references and a not infrequent use of crude humour. He brought these qualities to the Bayreuth Festival whe ...

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (2016)

RICHARD WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde - Bayreuther Festspiele Stephen Gould, Evelyn Herlitzius, Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Christa Mayer Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann Staged by Katharina Wagner ...

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin (2016)

A dream came true at Dresden's Semperoper in May 2016 when opera superstars Piotr Beczala and Anna Netrebko made their Wagner debuts as Lohengrin and Elsa, inspired to take on their new roles by Christian Thielmann, the Dresden Staatskapelle's principal co ...

Roger D'Astous (2016)

A documentary about Montreal architect Roger D'astous, who battled all his life to create a Nordic architecture. A star architect in the 60s, and Frank Lloyd Wright student, he fell from grace before rising again at the dawn of the century. ...

Das Liebesverbot (2016)

This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The Novice of Palermo, and became known as a cursed opera from which the composer had to distance himself. Wagne ...

Eifman Ballet: The Brothers Karamazov (2016)

The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky's creative work, the acme of the philosophic investigation carried out by this colossal and restless mind throughout his life. World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman offers a remarkable vi ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser (2015)

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner's early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of the minnesinger torn between earthly passion and true love. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, whose unswerving de ...

Tristan Und Isolde (2015)

Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in this production of Wagner's opera recorded in 2015. Starring Stephen Gould as Tristan and Evelyn Herlitzius as Isolde, the cast also includes Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Raimund Nolte an ...

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (2015)

Tim Albery's Olivier-nominated production for The Royal Opera delves deep into the psychology of Wagner's cursed wanderer and his beloved Senta, detailing the monomania and uncompromising idealism that finally drives them apart. Michael Levine's elemental ...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (2014)

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner's epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk's classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian tenor Jo ...

Tannhauser (2014)

Wagner's tale of the struggle between spiritual and profane love, and of redemption through love, is given a radical visual update in Sebastian Baumgarten's controversial yet thought-provoking Bayreuth production. Joep van Lieshout's giant installation 'Th ...

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 ...

Byeway (2014)

Activism, direct observation, and situational documentary inconspicuously linger about the constantly delayed construction of the D8 motorway. Local residents, a Brno-based activist and the construction chief shatter the clichés of contemporary documentar ...

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 ...

Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Tetralogie an einem Abend mit Marionetten und Menschen (2013)

Staged by the Salzburger Marionettentheater. Wagner's great epic condensed into two hours — compact, humorous and very exciting! Marionettes encounter actors and take us into a time tunnel of mythological entanglements. ...

Parsifal live at the Salzburg Easter Festival (2013)

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in this performance of Wagner's opera recorded live in 2013. The performance was held for the Salzburg Easter Festival and featured vocalists including Johan Botha, Michaela Schuster, Stephen Milling ...

Hitler und der Wagner Clan (2013)

A documentary about the political entanglement between the Wagner Family and the leadership of the Third Reich. ...

Parsifal (2013)

The Met assembled an ideal cast for François Girard's acclaimed new production of Wagner's final masterpiece: Jonas Kaufmann in the title role of the fool "made wise by compassion", René Pape as Gurnemanz, the veteran Knight of the Grail, Katarina Dalaym ...

Lohengrin: Opera romantica in tre atti (2012)

The people of the Duchy of Brabant are divided by quarrels and political infighting; also, a devious hostile power left over from the region's pagan past is seeking to subvert the prevailing monotheistic government and to return the Duchy to pagan rule. A ...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2012)

In "a Wagner staging to treasure" (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to life the legendary German composer's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Staged by David McVicar, the production features an all-star cast of leads supported by ...

Wagner: Tannhäuser (2012)

From the Gran Teatre del Liceu - one of the great Wagner singers of our time in the lead role, Peter Seiffert is a nimble, youthful-voiced Tannhäuser He plays alongside Petra Maria Schnitzer as Elisabeth. As the goddess of love, Elisabeth's counterpart Ve ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2012)

Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place. ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2011)

Robert Lepage's remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fab ...

Lohengrin (2011)

This performance of the Richard Wagner opera Logengrin was filmed in high definition for the Bayreuth Festival in 2011, and features vocalists like Georg Zeppenfeld, Klaus Florian Vogt, and Anette Dasch in the leading roles. ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre (2011)

Robert Lepage's landmark staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology with ...

Parsifal (2011)

A mythical performance from la Monnaie - Bruxelles. Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by ...

Wagner: Die Walküre (2010)

It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who bring dead heroes to Valhalla (the castle of the Gods). Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' v ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2010)

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and props (often formed of human beings): Their 30 computer projections and organic structures built of athletic ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2010)

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and props (often formed of human beings): Their 30 computer projections and organic structures built of athletic ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2010)

Robert Lepage's landmark staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology with ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2010)

In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable value. The Nibelung dwarf Alberich is dazzled by the sight of it. The girls explain that whoever wins the gold and forges it into a ring will gain power over ...

Der fliegende Holländer (2010)

A Romantic Opera in three acts recorded live at The Amsterdam Music Theatre. ...

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 ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2009)

In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' by La Fura dels Baus 'quite possibly shows us the path that musical theater will be taking in the future.' There's no doubt about it: the ...

Tannhäuser (2009)

Tristan und Isolde (2009)

Since the 1990s, Christoph Marthaler and his congenial stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock have caused a sensation with highly musical and atmospheric productions of plays and operas. It was only a matter of time, then, before this directing team was ...

Die Walküre (2008)

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. A Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2007 production, in coproduction with Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Directed for HDTV and video by Don Kent. ...

Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera (2008)

Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin staged in 1987 by Werner Herzog in Bayreuth. ...

The Met - Tristan und Isolde (2008)

James Levine's love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It was an afternoon to remember: Met favorite Deborah Voigt singing her first run as the proud Irish princess opposite tenor Robert Dean Smith—making an astonish ...

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 ...

Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur (2007)

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier production for the Ballet de Marseille used more realistic stage sets, but the current Paris version has minimal stage s ...

Wagner Die Walküre (2007)

Wagner: Parsifal (2007)

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and logic of its own ... with a double stress - on nature undefiled and on a form of religious symbolism ... There is an air of magic and mystery about ...

Lohengrin (2006)

This production of Wagner's mythic opera LOHENGRIN was recorded at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2006 with Sebastian Weigle conducting Liceu Grand Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. ...

A View from Space With Heavenly Music (2006)

As viewed and filmed in High Definition by astronauts on the space shuttle, this is the Planet Earth as few have seen before. One hour of High Definition visual space scenery, coupled with eight separate one hour soundtracks of the world's most treasured c ...

Die Walküre (2006)

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story of the ope ...

Das Rheingold (2006)

Prologue to Ring Cycle. DVD release June 2009. ...

Siegfried (2006)

Day 2 of the Ring Cycle. DVD release June 2009. ...

Götterdämmerung (2006)

Day 3 of the Ring Cycle. DVD release June 2009. ...

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 ...

Parsifal (2005)

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

Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser (2004)

Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conducted by Franz Welser-Most and featuring Peter Sieffert (Tannhauser), Solveig Kringelborn (Elisabeth) and Roman Trekel (von Eschenbach). Initially produced in ...

Three Leaders (2004)

Götterdämmerung (2004)

Third day of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Peter Konwitschny (Stuttgart State Opera 2000, recorded live on October 3, 2002 and January 12, 2003). Albert Bonnema as Siegfried, Luana DeVol as Brünnhilde, Rolan ...

Die Walküre (2004)

Part of Stuttgart Ring Cycle 2002/2003 - First Day ...

Siegfried (2004)

Part of Stuttgart Ring Cycle 2002/2003 - Second day. ...

Das Rheingold (2003)

Eve of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Joachim Schlömer (Stuttgart State Opera 1999, recorded live at the end of 2002). ...

Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg (2001)

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, recorded live at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2001. James Levine conducts. ...

Tannhäuser (2000)

A romantic opera in three acts with music and libretto by Richard Wagner, performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo. The original title, Tannhauser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg, reveals the real nature of the opera, born by a fusion of two ...

Tristan und Isolde (1999)

Inspired by Wagner's own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer's larg ...

The Man Who Would Be Kubrick (1999)

The documentary recounts Alan Conway's deception as Stanley Kubrick, exploiting misconceptions about Kubrick's appearance and people's desire for contact with a celebrity. It features an interview with Conway from 1996 and Alexander Walker's insights, aimi ...

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 ...

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail (1998)

Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records performances held in Bayreuth, St. Petersburg, and Ravello, Italy. Internationally renowned tenor Placido Domingo le ...

Tristan und Isolde (1998)

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Ope ...

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 ...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1995)

Wagner: Tannhäuser (1994)

David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal tech ...

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (1993)

Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich, with music conducted by Jiri Kout. Recorded at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. ...

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead. ...

Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlie ...

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 ...

Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera] (1992)

The Flying Dutchman (1992)

Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera. ...

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, ...

Götterdämmerung (1990)

The stupendous climax to Wagner's four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production and byJames Levine's monumental conducting. The Met orchestra, chorus, and an all-star cast make this Götterdämmerung ...

Das Rheingold (1990)

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk's production captures the scenic world of Wagner's Ring as brilliantly as James Levi ...

Die Walküre (1990)

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner's Ring cycle. Hildegard Behrens brings deep empathy to Brünnhilde, the favorite daughter of the god Wotan (James Morris) who neverthel ...

Siegfried (1990)

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ...

Lohengrin (1990)

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. ...

Mistress Berta Garlan (1989)

The adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant study of the moral illusion and reality in a small town near Vienna at the end of the century. - After the famous radio adaption by Max Ophüls in 1954. ...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1988)

Michael Hampe's acclaimed production of Wagner's comic opera tells a charming, human, romantic love story. And yet, at the same time, registers his protest against the narrow-minded critics and the prejudiced public who for so long refused him recognition. ...

Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos (1986)

Lohengrin (1986)

Wagner's Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that's just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first ...

Der fliegende Holländer (1985)

Agi, the Fury of Evil (1984)

A samurai warrior is terrorised by the demon Agi. ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser (1982)

As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer's most groundbreaking and unforgettable music, as well as a theme the young Wagner would revisit again and again later ...

Zizi (1982)

Based on Shirley Jackson's eerie short story The Summer People. ...

Deer Hunting (1982)

Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find ...

Parsifal (1982)

A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner's life, German literature and philosophy. The action is centered on Wagner's death mask. Kundry is the main character – one might read the film as the stor ...

Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde (1981)

Wagner: Die Walküre (1980)

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetration. This production of " Die Walkure," staged as part of Patrice Chereau's Centenary celebration marking ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (1980)

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of mist have dissipated, while the daring, long-held opening chord is still reverberating, the screen clears ...

Wagner: Siegfried (1980)

The third opera in Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle, Siegfried follows the adventures of the son of demigods Siegmund and Sieglinde as he conquers his enemies and rescues the beauteous Brunnhilde with the help of his magic sword. This video preserves the c ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (1980)

Götterdämmerung, the fourth of Richard Wagner's four Ring operas. The cast features Manfred Jung as Siegfried and Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde, with music provided by Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester conducted by Pierre Boulez. This title is available in ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. ...

Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle (1978)

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencing boundless sensuality and freedom with the fun-loving Venus (soprano), the singer Tannhäuser (Tenor) finds it impossible to conform to the cu ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (1978)

This 1978 studio production of the prologue to Wagner's masterpiece is the only segment of the famous Salzburg Festival/Metropolitan Opera productions, first seen in the 1960s, that made it to film. Based on one of those original productions, Georges Wakhe ...

Adolf and Marlene (1977)

When Hitler watches Marlene Dietrich in a movie, he falls in love with her. He persuades her to come back to Germany to be with him, but upon her arrival, she constantly insults and provokes him until he eventually, on her command, bites the carpet to bits ...

The Greatest Love of All Time (1977)

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović. ...

Her Return (1975)

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices. ...

Der Fliegende Holländer (1975)

This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the wind that blows out at you whenever you open the score", including Daland's boat anchoring against the Sandwike cliffs, the red-sailed phantom ship, and the ...

Tristan und Isolde (1973)

Birgit Nilsson and Jon Vickers star in this filmed record of the Theatre Antique d'Orange's acclaimed 1973 production of Wagner's epic tale of doomed love in the Middle Ages. Tristan und Isolde also features the Orchestre National de R.T.F., under the dire ...

Ludwig (1973)

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, ...

Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King (1972)

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972. ...

The Fifteenth Spring (1971)

Fifteen years old Sasha is dreaming about adventures, falling in love and doesn't know that WWII is approaching... ...

Tristan and Isolde (1970)

Belgian opera film of Wagner's opera. ...

Tristan und Isolde (1967)

The Little Chaos (1966)

Theo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery. ...

Ming Green (1966)

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is dedicated to the filmmaker Stan Brakhage and was shot without a scenario and edited entirely in the camera. ...

Patriotism (1966)

Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. ...

One Man Band (1965)

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless 'little man' who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal. ...

The Flying Dutchman (1964)

In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. In this realm of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her—the Flying Dutchman—who is cursed to wan ...

The Clock Stopped at Midnight (1959)

A group of resistance members are fighting Germans in the occupied Minsk during WWII. ...

Ludwig II (1955)

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ...

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 7: Wagner (1951)

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #7 was of a concert on December 29, 1951 from Carnegie Hall, featuring music from Wagner's operas. (Concerts #6 and #7 were released as "Vol. 4" in the DVD series. ...

The Evil Forest (1951)

Brave hero Parsifal, orphan and raised among wolves, must recover the Holy Grail from the hands of the evil wizard Klingsor, a Barbarian chieftain who killed his father, and thus save the wounded Amfortas, ruler of the Grail kingdom. Kundria, a beautiful ...

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 4: Mozart, Dvorak, Wagner (1948)

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #3 was of a concert on December 4, 1948, at NBC Studio 8H, featuring Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor K550; Dvorak's Symphonic Variations op78; and Wagner's Overture t ...

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 1: Wagner (1948)

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #1 was of a concert on March 20, 1948, at NBC Studio 8H, featuring orchestral music from Wagner's operas. (Concerts #1 and #2 were released on "Vol. 1" in the DVD series. ...

Romantici a Venezia (1948)

This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city ...

Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer (1944)

An unusually intense and emotional day in the otherwise monotonous life of a woman. ...

La verdadera victoria (1944)

The romance between a Spanish correspondent and an Argentine daughter of Poles during the Nazi invasion of Poland. ...

Lohengrin (2019)

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclu ...

Hitler und der Wagner Clan (2013)

A documentary about the political entanglement between the Wagner Family and the leadership of the Third Reich. ...