No doubt, Sir Georg Solti was one of the most auratic maestros of the past century. Being a real master of the orchestra he inevitably impressed his great visions of sound and interpretation upon the musicians and the audience. These rare black and white documentations produced in 1966 and 1968 show how Solti's amiable insistence in rehearsal with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart turns Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture and Berlioz' Hungarian March into sharpened and haunting performances.
Lovely but lethal, the evil Princess Turandot comes to life through the performance of Luana De Vol ...
Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic...
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...
In the magical world of dancing fireflies, we follow the story of the main character - naughty Sväto...
“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say...
Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848). Libretto by Sa...
Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto i...
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayab...
Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a...
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The do...
"Yenufa" is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century. Drawing on Moravian folklore...
Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
Around 1536, at Windsor Castle, King Henry VIII of England fell in love with the young queen's lady-...
Study of the work of the conductor Václav Neumann and his creative process with the orchestra.
Wagner’s mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and cond...
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...