Inga Nielsen

Models from a financially struggling girlie magazine begin turning up dead.

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.

Pseudolus, esclave chez Senex et Domina, subit, chaque jour, les sévices d'Hysterium, leur majordome homosexuel. Fort heureusement réside non loin de là Lycus, un marchand de femmes. Pseudolus découvre que Hero, le fils de son maître, est amoureux de celle qu'il croit être la fille encore pure du voisin, Phylia - en réalité une nouvelle pensionnaire de Lycus. Pseudolus promet à Hero de l'aider à conquérir le cœur de la belle en échange de son affranchissement…

Set in a mountainous and thickly wooded Bohemian landscape in the 17th century, Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" (The Marksman) tells the tale of Max, a young gamekeeper. Max is in love with Agathe, daughter of the head ranger to Prince Ottokar. To win her hand, an ancient custom requires Max to prove his skill as a marksman on the morning of the wedding by shooting at any object the Prince may choose on the spur of the moment. Max is willing to do anything, absolutely anything to succeed - even at the cost of selling his soul to the demon Samiel. Recorded live at the Zürich Opera House, 1999.

Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the heroic American civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The libretto is comprised of passages from “The Bhagavad-Gita,” India’s greatest philosophical epic, and perfectly complements Glass’ ravishing score, mysteriously transporting the audience with a serene power and an all-encompassing sense of peace.

Son avion s'étant écrasé sur une île perdue au milieu du Triangle des Bermudes, le Major Steve Trevor est retrouvé inconscient par Diana, une princesse Amazone. Tombée sous le charme, elle décide de le ramener à Washington et, pour veiller sur lui, se fait engager à ses côtés sous le nom de Diana Prince. Dotée des supers-pouvoirs des Amazones, la jeune femme se glisse incognito sous la panoplie de Wonder Woman pour venir en aide à Steve lors de ses missions...