Festspiele / 1982

Television film

Die Festspiele der Reality Stars / 2020

Giuseppe Verdi: "Falstaff" Salzburger Festspiele 2023 / 2023

Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 / 2020

Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Orpheus and his hacked-off Eurydice, of gods and goddesses seeking diversion, jaded with humdrum life in Olympus. He tells of the rebellion in the pantheon, which Jupiter adeptly averts by promising an amusement for his entourage. Burning with curiosity to see the beauteous captive and the contest between Jupiter and Pluto for Eurydice’s favour, the illustrious company embarks on an infernal ride to the underworld that culminates in what is surely the most wellknown can-can in the history of music. And what of Eurydice? She ends up putting a spoke in everyone’s wheel…

Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 / 2023

The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director.

Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele, 2022 / 2023

Eine Stadt als Bühne - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele / 2020

Così fan tutte - Salzburger Festspiele 2020 / 2020

As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the future with heads held high. In his staging of the version he abridged with Joana Mallwitz for the Salzburg Festival 2020 the focus is wholly on the figures and the subtle choreography of their emotional states — in a space that like a magnifying glass exposes the intricate mechanisms between the characters. In this way the production leads the protagonists and the audience to experience the ‘serene calm’ that can perhaps indeed cure our own ‘distempers’.

Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele / 2020

The Great World Theatre - Salzburg and Its Festival / 2020

A documentary about how the Salzburger Festspiele came to be and evolved almost 100 years ago.

Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele / 1970

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele / 2018

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer.

Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele 1962 / 1962

Die Zauberflöte, Bregenzer Festspiele / 2013

What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies, lovers’ arias, showstopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales. W. A. Mozart’s opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed operas in the world. The production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dog-dragons, each of them more than twenty meters in height. “David Pountney finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding ‘The Magic Flute’.” (Tagesspiegel) “The ‘play on the lake’ in Bregenz takes the audience into a fantasy world.” (Salzburger Nachrichten)

Götterdämmerung: Bayreuther Festspiele / 2007

This Götterdämmerung is the only installment of the Kirchner/Rosalie/Levine 1994-8 Bayreuth Ring taped for subsequent DVD release. Kirchner and Rosalie publicly stated a desire to depart from the political Ring productions of previous Bayreuth Ring directors such as Kupfer and Chéreau and free Wagner´s work from all the "ideological and philosophical" ballast.

Jedermann - Salzburger Festspiele / 2020

Guntram - Tiroler Festspiele Erl / 2005

Set in medieval Germany, the triangular Wagnerian-style story of love and redemption is about the minstrel Guntram, the evil Duke Robert and his saintly wife Freihild.

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023 / 2023

After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Krzysztof Warlikowski revisits Verdi's most powerful Shakespearean opera, with baritone Vladislav Sulimsky and soprano Asmik Grigorian in the roles of the murderous spouses.

Giacomo Puccini: „Il trittico“ Salzburger Festspiele 2022 (Gesamtfassung) / 2022