Arthaus Musik
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Pierre Boulez - A Life for Music
A documentary by Reiner E. Moritz
London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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Edvard Grieg - What Price Immortality
A music film about the life of Edvard Grieg directed by Thomas Olofsson
Staffan Scheja (Edvard Grieg) & Claudia Zöhner (Nina Hagerup)
Thomas Olofsson (director)
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Puccini: La Bohème
Maria Teresa Leva (Mimi), Ivan Ayon Rivas (Rodolfo), Hasmik Torosyan (Musetta), Massimo Cavaletti (Marcello), Tommaso Barea (Schaunard), Alessio Cacciamani (Colline),Matteo Peirone (Benoit/Alcindoro), Alejandro Escobar (Parpignol), Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Daniel Oren
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Wagner: Siegfried
Johnny Van Hall (Siegfried), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Heiki Porsten (Forest Bird), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair, Michael Schulz (director)
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Verdi: Falstaff
Otto Edelmann (Sir John Falstaff), Elisabeth Höngen (Mrs. Quickly), Melitta Muszely (Mrs. Alice Ford), Graziella Sciutti (Nannetta), Hans Günter Grimm (Ford) & Richard Von Vrooman (Fenton)
Wiener Symphoniker, Nello Santi (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (director)
The picture has been scrubbed up to look remarkably clean for its age...Otto Edelmann plays a blessedly unexaggerated Falstaff...Nello Santi conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with an Italianate... —
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Jacques Imbrailo (Pelléas), Michaela Selinger (Mélisande), Vincent Le Texier (Golaud), Doris Soffel (Geneviève) & Wolfgang Schöne (Arkel)
Essener Philharmoniker, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director)
Imbrailo's Pelléas is a virile, romantic heartthrob, with fine voice to match. Mezzo-soprano Michaela Selinger follows the recent trend of shunning the blanched view of Mélisande, resulting... —
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Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzahlungen
Hanns Nocker (Hoffman), Melitta Muszely (Stella/Olympia), Rudolf Asmu (Lindorf/Coppelius), Werner Enders (Cochenille/Pitichinaccio), Vladimir Bauer (Spalanzani), Alfred Wroblewski (Crespel), Horst-Dieter Kaschel (Schlemihl), Sylvia Kuziemski (Niklaus/Muse), Uwe Kreyssig (Nathanael), Heinz Kogel (Lutter),...
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