Robert Tear

Turandot (2002)

Valery Gergiev leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in this production of Puccini's opera, recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2002. David Pountney's production features performances by Gabriele Schnaut, Paata Burchuladze, Johan Botha and Cris ...

The Makropulos Case (1995)

Recorded at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Leos Janacek's opera follows the exploits of Emilia Marty (Anja Silja), a sexually irresistible prima donna who experiences everything imaginable in her long life, which lasts longer than 300 years. Direct ...

The Marriage of Figaro (1994)

Live from Glyndebourne 1994. The first production to be filmed Live in Glyndebourne´s new opera house May 1994. The Marriage of Figaro is a continuation of the plot of The Barber of Seville several years later, and recounts a single "day of madness" in ...

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1992)

A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that she longs ...

Britten: Death in Venice (1990)

Death in Venice was Britten's final opera--an extraordinarily atmospheric and haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, evoking the grandeur and shabbiness of a Venice in the grip of disease. He eloquently and evocatively describes the moral and physic ...

Alban Berg - Lulu (1986)

Der Rosenkavalier (1985)

Live performance, new production season 1984-5. BBC 2 Television relay on 30 March 1985 of performance of February 11. ...

The Turn of the Screw (1982)

Benjamin Britten's opera of the Henry James novel. ...

The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)

Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work. ...

Billy Budd (1966)

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder? ...