Opernhaus Zürich Movie Trailers
Most Popular Opernhaus Zürich Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
Siegfried Trailer (2024)
24 May 2024
Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest".
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.
Die Walküre Trailer (2024)
20 May 2024
Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest".
Götterdämmerung Trailer (2024)
26 May 2024
Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest".
William Tell Trailer (1987)
06 September 1987
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.
Alban Berg - Wozzeck Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Trailer (2020)
19 June 2020
Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired generations of artists to adaptations like scarcely any other work.
Das Rheingold Trailer (2024)
18 May 2024
Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest".
Le comte Ory Trailer (2013)
23 January 2013
Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-language comedy opera described by the international press as “pure, unadulterated fun” and reminds us of her comic gifts and her naturalness as a stage actor — as well as her total sympathy with the music of Rossini.
Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser Trailer (2004)
16 November 2004
Witness the Zurich Opera's stunning production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece "Tannhauser," conducted by Franz Welser-Most and featuring Peter Sieffert (Tannhauser), Solveig Kringelborn (Elisabeth) and Roman Trekel (von Eschenbach).
Winterreise Trailer (2021)
13 February 2021
Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" is considered the pinnacle of German art song. Hans Zender (1936 - 2019) arranged the cycle in 1993, and his version for tenor and small orchestra brings to light emotions that pulsate beneath the surface in Schubert.
Fierrabras Trailer (2007)
06 October 2007
Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Chanson de Roland and the legend of the love between Eginhard and Emma.
Don Pasquale Trailer (2007)
10 September 2007
Juan Diego Florez in another of his great stage roles. Old Don Pasquale (Ruggero Raimondi) wishes to marry and produce an heir, thus disinheriting his nephew Ernesto, who loves the merry widow Norina.
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.
Berg: Lulu Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals.
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).
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.
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.
The Tales of Hoffmann Trailer (2025)
12 July 2025
Hoffmann, the poet, is torn between art and life, love and fantasy, dream and reality. His love for Stella, the singer, remains unrequited, and he takes refuge in alcohol and the world of his imagination.
Beatrice di Tenda Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
Pelléas et Mélisande Trailer (2004)
16 November 2004
Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia Trailer (2001)
30 April 2001
Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber into a major event.
