Arthaus Musik Movie Trailers
Most Popular Arthaus Musik Trailers
Total trailers found: 79
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House) Trailer (2001)
01 December 2001
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for television and video by Brian Large.
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Trailer (2009)
27 October 2009
At first glance, the title of Shostakovich’s opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the most heinous crime just like the Shakespearian Lady Macbeth.
Madama Butterfly Trailer (2004)
10 July 2004
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker.
The Damnation of Faust Trailer (1999)
25 August 1999
The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing at a level of intensity that would swamp anything less; the climactic seduction trio has rarely been sung so well or with such an overpoweringly polymorphous eroticism.
Der Rosenkavalier Trailer (2004)
06 August 2004
This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg.
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle Trailer (2018)
01 June 2018
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate.
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail Trailer (1998)
08 July 1998
Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records performances held in Bayreuth, St.
Verdi Otello Trailer (1962)
01 February 1962
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final appearance on the opera stage.
Alcina Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
The setting of the opera is the enchantress Alcina's island: here by her magic powers she has created a magnificent palace in a beautiful landscape, to lure her many lovers into her power.
Verdi: Requiem Trailer (1982)
01 August 1982
Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado, recorded in high definition audio.
La Boheme Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin) Trailer (1971)
18 October 1971
Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin.
Carmen Trailer (1978)
01 December 1978
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. From ORF and TDK Music, this release features a live performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century operatic masterwork Carmen.
Norma Trailer (2007)
25 July 2007
NORMA tells the tragic story of a supposedly chaste druidic priestess, who is driven to murderous jealousy by her lover's inconstancy.
Verdi: La Traviata Trailer (2007)
07 July 2007
Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organises a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Trailer (2009)
27 October 2009
Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, September, 2008.
One Night, One Life Trailer (2002)
04 March 2002
In the film One Night. One Life, based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a surreal, at times grotesque dream world set in a modern city, through which Pierrot moves like a spirit.
Handel: Admeto Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Axel Kohler, the internationally renowned countertenor has brought Admeto into the modern era in timeless style by the skillful application of imaginative theatrical digressions.
Wozzeck Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle mightily to make a living, even as others around him prosper.
Vivaldi Orlando Furioso Trailer (2001)
22 May 2001
For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's stage work.
Orphée aux Enfers Trailer (1997)
01 May 1997
Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997 Herbert Wernicke production staged at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Verdi: Macbeth Trailer (1987)
19 June 1987
Macbeth" was Giuseppe Verdi's first attempt at music drama and also the first manifestation of his profound love for Shakespeare's work.
La Belle Hélène Trailer (2000)
01 December 2000
This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he seems to still retain the Offenbach magic.
Wagner: Das Rheingold Trailer (2013)
02 September 2013
The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work.
Wagner: Siegfried Trailer (2014)
06 January 2014
In Siegfried, the “Second Day” or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the epic tale.
Aida Trailer (1985)
01 November 1985
La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger-than-life staging.
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin) Trailer (1975)
26 February 1975
The Marriage of Figaro that received its premiere on 26 February 1975 in the Komische Oper Berlin was Walter Felsenstein’s last production and in many respects can be regarded as representing his legacy.
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo: Le Songe Trailer (2011)
30 August 2011
Based on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a choreographic film by Jean-Christophe Maillot.
Mozart: Così fan tutte Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
German director Claus Guth´s Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy was concluded at the 2009 Salzburg Festival with Cosí fan tutte featuring a starry cast including Miah Persson, Bo Skovhus, Isabel Leonard as well as Patricia Petibon.
Dichterliebe Trailer (2000)
31 December 2000
In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same name, the boundaries between song recital and reality blur.
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel Trailer (2008)
18 November 2008
Johannes Felsenstein’s production of HANSEL AND GRETEL presents it with every sinister element removed.
Adriana Lecouvreur Trailer (2009)
01 July 2009
In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-demand representatives of her vocal category.
Pierre Boulez Saal – Opening Concert Trailer (2017)
17 January 2017
Contents Boulez: Initiale /Boulez Ensemble (chamber ensemble) Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller) Anna Prohaska (soprano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Daniel Barenboim (piano) Mozart: Piano Quartet No.
Sophia: Biography of a Violin Concerto Trailer (2008)
21 April 2008
Russian-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina entered the international spotlight at a relatively late age, when the 49-year-old came forward with her premier violin concerto, "Offertorium," in 1980.
Traces to Nowhere: The Conductor Carlos Kleiber Trailer (2010)
25 July 2010
A documentary about the life and career of the conductor Carlos Kleiber. Featuring interviews with Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Manfred Honeck, Michael Gielen, and others.
Celibidache: You Don't do Anything, You Let it Evolve Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
A feature length portrait of conductor Sergiu Celibidache; four years in the making, director Jan Schmidt-Garre collaborated closely with the musical director of the Munich Philharmonic.
Demetrio E Polibio Trailer (2012)
15 November 2012
The work was given its first performance in Rome in 1812. It is still unclear whether Rossini was 14 or 18 when he wrote it; what is beyond doubt, however, is the anticipation of great things to come.
Verdi: Othello (Komische Oper Berlin) Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Directed by Walter Felsenstein in 1969, this production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera chronicles the tragic tale of Othello, a Moorish general whose inability to control his feelings of mistrust and jealousy lead to his dramatic downfall.
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House) Trailer (2000)
05 July 2000
A production of Mozart's opera recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2000. Cecilia Bartoli leads an all-star cast including Roberto Saccà, Liliana Nikiteanu, and Agnes Baltsa.
The Fiery Angel Trailer (1993)
24 December 1993
Serge Prokofiev's enigmatic work, this is a tale of the supernatural, religious hysteria and demonic possession which is set in Germany at the time of The Inquisition.
Solti Centenary Concert Trailer (2013)
30 April 2013
Solti’s 100th birthday on October 21, 2012, featuring the World Orchestra for Peace. This unique ensemble owes its existence to the vision of its founder, Sir Georg Solti, who believed passionately in peace and the power of music and musicians to be ambassadors for peace.
Le Grand Macabre Trailer (2011)
19 November 2011
Premiered in Stockholm in 1978, the work is based on a play by Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) and unfolds in an imaginary land inspired by the famous Dutch painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Nekrotzar, the Grand Macabre, announces the end of the world; but in a land ruled by eros, alcohol and corruption, his plan to unleash the Apocalypse bursts like a soap bubble.
Die Soldaten Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall.
Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink
Iphigénie en Tauride Trailer (2001)
24 April 2001
The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poetry - in its purest form - with operatic score, an end he came closest to achieving with his 1779 opera Iphigeneia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride).
Verdi: Luisa Miller Trailer (2013)
29 November 2013
Giuseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts based on Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love).
Rossini: Il turco in Italia (Opernhaus Zurich) Trailer (2002)
28 April 2002
When a wealthy Turkish aristocrat arrives in a humble Italian town, the married women roll their eyes in delight, their rival lovers lose out, and the husbands rage with jealousy.
Wagner: Götterdämmerung Trailer (2014)
03 March 2014
Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions.
A Swan Lake Trailer (2014)
01 September 2014
The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince Siegfried and his love for the beautiful Odette, victim of the spell cast by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, an enchantment that turns her and her friends into swans when the light of day tears the dark shadows of night.
Wagner: Die Walküre Trailer (2013)
04 November 2013
Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend.
Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio Trailer (2004)
15 February 2004
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Opera House.
Vision Mahler Trailer (2007)
24 June 2007
The musical performance of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony is interactively connected with the visual interpretation of the piece.
Mats Ek's Giselle Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Discover acclaimed Swedish choreographer Mats Ek’s 1987 reworking of the ballet classic, Giselle, for the Cullberg Ballet.
