Hans Sotin

Da Capo

Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencin...

The Transformation of the World Into Music

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the b...

Beethoven Fidelio

This production is a gala affair; the sets are traditional (evocative of 18th-19th century Spain); the lighting...

Mahler Symphonies 1 & 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)

These recordings are with two different orchestras (Mahler 1st with the Chicago Symphony and the 8th with the L...

Die Zauberflöte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute is undoubtedly one of the most multi-layered, profound, complicated, and...

Wozzeck

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me

Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a...

Wagner: Parsifal

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and lo...

The Devils of Loudun

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Lo...

Zar und Zimmermann

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love.

Weber: Der Freischütz

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the Hamburg Stat...

Celibidache in St. Florian - Bruckner's Mass in F minor

Fidelio

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea o...

Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 & Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli

Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde

Joseph Haydn Mass: In Tempore belli