Harry Kupfer Trailers

The Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold Trailer (1991)

15 July 1991

PRELIMINARY EVENINING OF THE RING CYCLE. Upon the banks of the ageless river Rhine, the Rhinemaidens play.

The Ring Cycle: Gotterdammerung Trailer (1991)

04 July 1991

THIRD DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Günter, the lord of the Rhine people, gives Siegfried a love potion that causes Siegfried to forget Brünnhilde and fall in love with Günter's sister Gutrane.

Macbeth Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

Giuseppe Verdi's powerful opera Macbeth sees a barnstorming staging by legendary stage director Harry Kupfer at the newly reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure Trailer (1992)

15 June 1992

FIRST DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Fleeing for his life, Siegmund seeks shelter at Sieglinde's house. Her husband Hunding happens to be one of Siegmund's pursuers, and the two of them must cross swords the next day.

The Ring Cycle: Siegfried Trailer (1992)

03 July 1992

SECOND DAY OF THE RING CYCLE. Alberich's brother Mime raises the orphan Siegfried, hoping that Siegfried will kill Fafner and enable Mime to gain the ring.

Der fliegende Holländer Trailer (1985)

01 January 1985

Orfeo Ed Euridice Trailer (1991)

06 July 1991

Performed live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Gluck's opera in three acts is conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.

Wagner - Das Rheingold Trailer (2005)

22 March 2005

The prologue to Wagner's giant masterpiece Der Ring des Nibelungen unfolds the beginning of an epic journey when Alberich seizes the ring of gold, its awesome power unleashing an unstoppable story of deceit, destruction, death and transfiguring love.

Wagner - Götterdämmerung Trailer (2005)

16 August 2005

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws.

Wagner - Siegfried Trailer (2006)

21 November 2006

In the third work of Wagner's epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegmund's shattered sword is forged once again and kills the dragon that guards the ring.

Die Soldaten Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Nancy Shade is persuasive as the awkward adolescent Marie, whose naiveté leads relentlessly to her downfall.

Wagner - Die Walkure Trailer (2005)

17 May 2005

Where Das Rheingold introduces us to the gods, underworld denizens, and giants who inhabit the world of Wagner's Ring cycle, the second of the four operas, Die Walküre, focuses on the interaction of men and gods.

Parsifal Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the Berlin State Opera in 1992.

Elektra Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability.