ArtHaus Movie Trailers

Simon Boccanegra Trailer (2002)

22 October 2002

One of the lesser known works by Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers as one of his finest.

Tosca Trailer (2012)

13 February 2012

This production from the historic Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Italy, stars the opera worlds power couple, Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, as lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi.

Paisiello Nina Trailer (2002)

16 October 2002

The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and seems very difficult to be performed if the singer has no acting talents.

Fidelio Trailer (1990)

21 November 1990

Beethoven's opera Fidelio.

Rigoletto Trailer (2006)

01 December 2006

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich.

Cosi Fan Tutte Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters.

Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.

Werther Trailer (2005)

05 November 2005

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, took the title role.

Il Trovatore - Verdi Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curse on one of the old Count di Luna's two sons: she decides to abduct the younger child and throw it in the flames.

Tancredi Trailer (1992)

01 June 1992

Live performance from Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1992. Based on Voltaire's tragedy, TANCREDI is a story of innocence wronged set against a backdrop of Turks at war with Syracuse.

Rubinstein in Concert Trailer (1973)

01 June 1973

Live 1973 concert performances by celebrated Polish-American virtuoso concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under conductor Bernard Haitink.

Giselle Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Ballet in two acts. Corps de Ballet of the Teatro Alla Scala. Music by Adolphe Adam.

L’Italiana in Algeri Trailer (1987)

01 December 1987

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchino Rossini penned the masterful comic opera “L’Italiana in Algeri” (“The Italian Girl in Algiers”) in less than a month.

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.

Bach Matthäus-Passion Trailer (2012)

07 April 2012

A beautiful, sensitive, reverent performance. Fischer allows Bach to speak with no unnecessary flourishes.

La Gioconda Trailer (1986)

01 December 1986

Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recording of Ponchielli's famed four-act melodrama, a story of tyranny and intrigue set in semi-historical and ever-romantic Venice.

Ernani Trailer (2017)

17 November 2017

Stage director Jean-Louis Grinda and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo present Verdi’s early smash hit opera Ernani.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2011)

26 April 2011

Live performance at Teatro Regio di Parma, April 15-26, 2011.

Rossini Sigismondo Trailer (2010)

12 June 2010

Early Rossini has a youthful, buoyant vibrancy about it, even in the dark swirls of drammi per musica like Sigismondo.

Otello Trailer (2001)

07 December 2001

This was Domingo's last set of performances as Otello in La Scala. In spite of his relatively advanced age, he is still in excellent form, both vocally and in terms of stage presence.

Verdi La Traviata Trailer (2005)

04 February 2005

This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welser-Möst has many things to recommend it -- the young tenor Piotr Beczala as Alfredo, the marvelous Thomas Hampson as Giorgio Germont, the playing of the Zurich Opera orchestra, the simple but effective sets by by Erich Wonder, the uncluttered stage direction by Jürgen Flimm.

Orphée aux enfers Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 production of Offenbach's opera starring Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and Laurent Naouri.

Un Andantino Trailer (2023)

22 April 2023

María Villar, Cleo Moguillansky and Alejo Moguillansky tried to read live -perhaps sing- a voiceover narrative in sync with the projection of a deleted scene of The Little Match Girl, between fiction, essay, exhumation, failure, and the time that goes by and is unforgiving.

Raymonda Trailer (2012)

09 April 2012

Recorded live from the Teatro all Scala, Milan, 2011