Mirella Freni Movie Trailers

Karajan: Beauty As I See It Trailer (2008)

10 May 2008

With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record sales topping 200 million, Herbert von Karajan is one of the most legendary figures in 20th-century classical music.

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998 Trailer (1998)

31 December 1998

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond.

La Bohème Trailer (1965)

16 January 1965

In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone production of Puccini’s masterpiece at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala.

Don Carlo Trailer (1983)

28 July 1983

Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles.

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.

Verdi Ernani Trailer (1982)

28 July 1982

It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian Baritone that he was at that time; Nicolai Ghiaurov proves again that he was one of the greatest "Verdi Basses"; Mirella Freni shows that there was more to her than just being Mimi and Susannah-in fact I can remember reading that at the time of the premiere of this production that there were fist fights (not unusual in La Scala's gallery) between Mirella's many fans--between those fans that just wanting her to continue singing the light lyric repertoire that they were use to her singing and those that felt she should and could sing the lyric-spinto repertoire which, of course, she proved that,indeed, she could (She's still singing more than twenty years later).

Fedora Trailer (1997)

26 April 1997

Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her with another woman.

Adriana Lecouvreur Trailer (1989)

02 June 1989

Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur concerns a doomed love based on a real story about an actress involved in a famous love triangle.

Falstaff Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera.

Otello Trailer (1973)

21 May 1973

Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

Verdi: Otello Trailer (1976)

12 July 1976

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song Trailer (1992)

01 December 1992

Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some of the carols sung by opera stars.

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Trailer (1978)

27 October 1978

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding opera singers and conductors.

The Marriage of Figaro Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is a comedy whose dark undertones explore the blurred boundaries between dying feudalism and emerging Enlightenment.

Bizet Carmen Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Puccini's Madama Butterfly Trailer (1974)

14 September 1974

Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-directed version of the Puccini opera, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

La Traviata Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame Trailer (1991)

01 October 1991

A great performance at the Carnegie Hall 1991 Tschaikovsky „Pique Dame“ under Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 Trailer (1991)

23 September 1991

Mirella Freni – Ein Leben für die Oper Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

Gounod: Faust Trailer (1975)