This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.
Documentary
Siegfried Jerusalem
Recently added
Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me
Dec 01, 2008Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a voice within me”, we enter her world and learn about her motivations, aspirations, and her joyful way of pursuing them. In addition to personal insights, this truly ingenious portrait presents Waltraud Meier on stage and in rehearsal in her most celebrated Wagner roles and as an interpreter of Mahler’s Lieder. It becomes clear how she coined today’s musical world when other great musicians such as Daniel Barenboim or Plácido Domingo speak about her and her work. This beautiful portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of our time is rounded off with a powerful recording of Mahler’s “Lied von der Erde”.
Documentary
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Siegfried
Jul 03, 1992SECOND 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 sword himself and kills Fafner, who has the form of a dragon. When he accidentally tastes the dragon's blood spilt on his hands, Siegfried understands the song of a woodbird, who instructs him to take the Ring from Fafner. Reading Mime's thoughts of betrayal, Siegfried kills the dwarf as well. The woodbird also informs Siegfried of a mysterious woman asleep in the midst of fire, and Siegfried sets off to find her. After defeating a disguised Wotan and breaking his spear, Siegfried successfully awakes Brünnhilde, and the two fall in love. Filmed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in June & July 1992.
Music
Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung
Jul 04, 1991THIRD 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, but her Valkyrie sister urges her to destroy it, because their father Wotan has lost his spear and power and is hiding out in Valhalla. Instead, Brünnhilde keeps it, and under the influence of the potion, Siegfried steals it from her. Enraged, Brünnhilde helps Alberich's son murder Siegfried, but Siegfried's memory returns, and he dies thinking of Brünnhilde. Brünnhilde repents and orders a funeral pyre to be built. She rides into the fire herself, and the Rhinemaidens get the ring back. The story closes with flames flickering about Valhalla in the background. Filmed at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in June & July 1991.
Music
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Aug 12, 1980This 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 to show not only the River Rhine and the three maidens (dressed like prostitutes in this production) assigned to guard the gold hidden there. It also shows an enormous dam (not mentioned in Wagner's text). This is the underwater base of a hydroelectric plant, and its presence tells us two things immediately: that this production takes the story out of the vaguely medieval fantasy world in which Wagner had placed it, and that a basic theme of the four-opera cycle would be power. Alberich, the Nibelung, is willing to renounce the love of women, after stealing the gold from the Rhine, to become the ruler of the world. Another basic theme is greed.
Music
![Das Rheingold [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qvR0FNwdogApDrXdqGfpowxNROL.jpg)
Das Rheingold [The Metropolitan Opera]
Apr 23, 1990De la scène magnifique au fond du Rhin qui ouvre l'opéra, jusqu'au magique pont arc-en-ciel qui apparaît à la fin, menant à un Valhalla scintillant, la production d'Otto Schenk capture le monde scénique du Ring de Wagner aussi brillamment que James Levine et le Met l'orchestre capture le monde musical. Le casting est incomparable : un étonnant James Morris en jeune dieu Wotan, la grande Christa Ludwig en sa femme Fricka, l'incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem en Loge, le rusé dieu du feu, et Ekkehard Wlaschiha en Alberich complexe.
Fantasy
![Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fSbqJlqySJsqWGQoYkAp14HAOf6.jpg)
Parsifal [The Metropolitan Opera]
Mar 28, 1992La direction par James Levine du dernier opéra de Wagner était autrefois décrite comme « un modèle de ravissement concentré ». L’orchestre et le chœur du Met – sans parler de la distribution de stars – sont certainement envoûtants dans cette performance, dans la production atmosphérique d’Otto Schenk (avec des décors de Günther Schneider-Siemssen). Siegfried Jérusalem est Parsifal, le sage fou qui reprend la Sainte Lance et restaure la terre du Saint Graal. L'envoûtante Waltraud Meier est Kundry, sa plus grande tentation. Gurnemanz de Kurt Moll est à la fois compatissant et sage.
Music
![Siegfried [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aI0zLGuSzFILSecoxWwzXqtNjmF.jpg)
Siegfried [The Metropolitan Opera]
Feb 23, 1990Le monde magique de Siegfried est brillamment évoqué dans cette production d’Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen. Notre héros de conte (Siegfried Jerusalem) forge son épée, l'utilise pour tuer le dragon (le merveilleux Matti Salminen dans le rôle de Fafner), découvre un trésor et réveille Brünnhilde endormie (une puissante Hildegard Behrens), inconsciente de l'anneau de feu qui le protège. son. James Morris, à la voix somptueuse, est profondément émouvant dans le rôle du Vagabond, le dieu qui ne peut arrêter le destin de Siegfried. C'est James Levine et l'orchestre du Met à leur meilleur.
Music
Der Zigeunerbaron
Jan 01, 1975In the Temesvar Province, a landowner returned from exile marries a gypsy girl who is revealed to be the daughter of a Turkish Pasha and the rightful owner of a hidden treasure. Next to "Die Fledermaus", DER ZIGEUNERBARON is Johann Strauss’s most popular operetta. The libretto gave Strauss the chance to revel in such contrasting musical forms as the Csárdás and the Viennese waltz. The style of the lied forms and ensembles is so original and finely balanced that the "Gypsy Baron" can truly be called a comic opera. Among the leading names of the stellar cast in this exuberant 1975 film of the operetta are Wolfgang Brendel, Ivan Rebroff, Janet Perry, Ellen Shade, Martha Mödl and, in the role that launched his career, Siegfried Jerusalem as Sándor Barinkay.
Romance
Turandot - Staatsoper Berlin
Jun 18, 2022À Pékin, aux temps légendaires, chaque prétendant à la main de la belle princesse Turandot, doit répondre à trois énigmes ou mourir. Le prince Calaf se cache dans la ville de ses ennemis avec son père Timur, roi déchu de Tartarie. Le vieil homme aveugle est guidé par une jeune esclave, Liù qui l’a suivi dans son exil, par amour pour son fils. Liù et Timur tentent de dissuader Calaf, ébloui par la beauté de Turandot, de se soumettre à son tour à l’épreuve des trois énigmes.
Drama
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Apr 07, 1993Parsifal est un « festival scénique sacré » (en allemand : Bühnenweihfestspiel, selon l'appellation de Wagner) en trois actes de Richard Wagner créé le 26 juillet 18821 lors du second festival de Bayreuth. Il se fonde sur l’épopée médiévale Parzival de Wolfram von Eschenbach et sur Perceval ou le Conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes.
Music
Tristan und Isolde
Jul 03, 1995The 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 features musical accompaniment by The Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayreuther Festspiele.
Music
![Götterdämmerung [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/A4qmBpN4szs0Rw7t9S5LOnUIVHP.jpg)
Götterdämmerung [The Metropolitan Opera]
May 05, 1990Le point culminant prodigieux du cycle Ring en quatre parties de Wagner est brillamment réalisé par la production Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen et la direction monumentale de James Levine. L'orchestre du Met, le chœur et une distribution de stars font de ce Götterdämmerung un événement à la hauteur de l'occasion. Brünnhilde d'Hildegard Behrens doit être vécue pour être crue, tout comme Hagen, dominatrice et richement chantée, de Matti Salminen. Au centre du drame se trouve Siegfried Jerusalem dans le rôle de Siegfried, qui ne se rend pas compte qu'il a été entraîné dans un complot de trahison jusqu'à ce qu'il soit trop tard. Christa Ludwig est magnétique dans le rôle de Waltraute et Ekkehard Wlaschiha est un Alberich convaincant.
Music
Wagner: Parsifal
Jan 01, 2007Wolfgang 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 the staging ... The performance was excellent ... Horst Stein conducted a beautifully proportioned Parsifal'. New York Times
Music
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Jan 01, 1984Richard Wagner's grandson, Wolfgang Wagner, staged and directed this performance of the legendary composer's most human of musical dramas at the 1984 Bayreuth Festival. Horst Stein directs the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra and an all-star cast that includes Hermann Prey (as Beckmesser), Bernd Weikl (as Sachs), Siegfried Jerusalem (as Walter), Graham Clark (as David) and MariAnne Haggander (as Eva).
Music
Vater wider Willen
May 30, 2002Drama
Musik ist Trumpf
Dec 31, 1981
Die Montagsmaler
Nov 06, 2018Reality
Dalli Dalli
Apr 02, 2015Reality
Musik liegt in der Luft
Nov 15, 1998
Bambi-Verleihung
Nov 16, 2018The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Reality
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Apr 28, 2007Alpha Forum
Jan 30, 2018Talk
Das Sonntagskonzert
Mar 05, 2005Reality
