ARTHAUS MUSIK

When Canadian opera director Robert Carsen produced his intense and cogent staging of Poulenc, Francis's compelling opera Les Dialogues des Carm?lites at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam in 2001,...

When Canadian opera director Robert Carsen produced his intense and cogent staging of Poulenc, Francis's compelling opera Les Dialogues des Carm?lites at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam in 2001,...

One year before he died Franz Schubert composed the great song cycle "Winterreise" (Winter Journey) after the poems by Wilhelm M?ller. Being already very sick he created a masterpiece that - together...

Henry Purcell's opera Dido & Aeneas, completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtaking performance at the Staatsoper Berlin in 2005. In Dido & Aeneas Sasha Waltz opens up new...

Mozart's Die Entf?hrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) is an opera Singspiel in three acts with spoken rather than sung dialogue. This DVD shows the impeccable performance of the...

Staged by Gustav Rudolf Sellner, conducted by Lorin Maazel, with costumes by Filippo Sanjust and performed by the six soloists with consummate vocal elegance, Cimarosa's Die heimliche Ehe" offers...

Walter Felsenstein (1901-1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, was one of the twentieth century's greatest creative theatre directors, who played a hugely important role...

The Salzburg Festival summer of 1990 provided a wealth of artistic highlights. One of the very last highlights of the final weekend of the festival, however, was Muti, Ricardo conducting Joseph...

The free man must be his own maker"Wagner, Richard;'s Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer's autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew...

Mozart's final opera Die Zauberfl?te is also his most famous. The general public is familiar with it's array of popular arias, most notably the Queen of the Night's breathtaking coloratura. Since...

Mozart's masterpiece is presented in a version shortened to 60 minutes for the youngest (from 5 years), young and also adult audiences, thus providing children with their first insight into the...

In 1964 Deutsche Oper Berlin still had no General Music Director. But Artistic Director Gustav Rudolf Sellner made a virtue out a necessity and - in addition to the permanent conductor Hollreiser,...