Hans Sotin

TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencing boundless sensuality and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gwyneth Jones

This production is a gala affair; the sets are traditional (evocative of 18th-19th century Spain); the lighting is bright, so colors are good and one...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gundula Janowitz

Genre: Family

Cast: Hans Sotin

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates...

Genre: Music

Cast: Cvetka Ahlin

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toni Blankenheim

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ernst Kozub

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and logic of its own ... with a double...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernd Weikl

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anja Silja

Waltraud Meier is “La Wagnerissima”, the queen of Wagner’s repertoire. In her very personal account “I follow a voice within...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Waltraud Meier

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love .

Genre: Music

Cast: Raymond Wolansky

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norbert Balatsch

Genre: Music

Cast: Leonard Bernstein

These recordings are with two different orchestras (Mahler 1st with the Chicago Symphony and the 8th with the London Philharmonic). Tennstedt's live...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chicago Symphony Orchestra