Films with: Wagner, Richard

Hamsun

The shocking true story of Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning author who stunned the world by siding with Hitler and the Nazis.

DVD 6965

Leonard Bernstein at Harvard "the unanswered question," Norton lectures 1973.

DVD 1931

Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Among Wagner's mature operas, this is the only comedy. It is based on a true story of the guild of Meistersingers (Master singers). The town goldsmith announces that the winner of the Midsummer's Day song contest will win his daughter, but must also be or become a Mastersinger. The cobbler Hans Sachs (an actual historical figure) helps Walther compose a Mastersong with which to defeat his rival Beckmesser and win Eva.

DVD 9924

Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Presentation of Richard Wagner's opera Der Meistersinger.

DVD 9926

Orchesterwerkstatt Erich Leinsdorf probt und dirigiert.

Leinsdorf rehearses works by Wagner and Schumann with the Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks. Includes complete concert performances.

DVD 9151

Ring des Nibelungen a stage festival drama for three days and a preliminary evening, produced at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus /

An allegory telling the mythic tale of the battle for power between the Nibelung dwarfs, the giants and the gods.

DVD 7767

Ring des Nibelungen and "Wagner's dream" : the making of the Ring /

The four operas of The Ring Cycle. Wagner's dream: "Wagner's dream takes you deep into the artistic and musical challenges of the epic Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Visionary director Robert Lepage begins a five-year journey to create the most ambitious staging in Metropolitan Opera history, featuring a 90,000-pound set ("The Machine") conceived to meet Wagner's immense theatrical demands. The film follows heroic singers from rehearsals to performance as they take on many of the most daunting roles in opera. Soprano Deborah Voigt is torn between excitement and fear as she prepares to play the warrior goddess Brünnhilde, while unexpected drama arises as a new tenor, Jay Hunter Morris, steps in as the Ring's hero, Siegfried - days before the production's world premiere. An intimate look at the challenges of live theater and the risks that must be taken, the film chronicles the tremendous creativity and unflagging determination behind this daring attempt to realize Wagner's dream of a perfect Ring."--Container.

DVD 9699

Tannhäuser

"Götz Friedrich's 1970s production scandalized the Bayreuth old guard while revealing Tannhäuser's revolutionary qualities to a new age of Wagner lovers. 'Davis's conducting is nothing short of magnificent, while the singing is truly on a festival level' (New York Daily News). 'The performances throughout are superb-- Jones is stunningly effective.' (New York Times). 'In Jürgen Rose's beautiful settings-- an excellent introduction to a new approach to Wagner's world' (Le Quotidien de Paris)"--Container.

DVD 9698

Tristan and Isolde in 3 acts /

"The towering Wagner opera becomes am optimistic work about two people who succeed in finding love."--Container.

DVD 1446

Tristan und Isolde

The opera opens with Tristan taking Isolde (daughter of the King of Ireland) to be married to his uncle, King Marke of Cornwall. The opera unfolds as the story of a love which can only realise itself by abandoning the will to live.

DVD 5866