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 Handel’s popular composition (1742), mainly by arranging the wind parts and partially re-composing them. With Marc Minkowski a conductor has been engaged who understands perfectly how to combine baroque style with the tonal possibilities of an orchestra of the classical period like the Musiciens du Louvre. The excellent soloist quartet with Elena Tsallagova, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Richard Croft and José Coca Loza merges perfectly into Wilson’s enormous flood of images.
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Byst...
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased...
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased...
Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductin...
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This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production ...
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Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her j...
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