Movies: Komische Oper Berlin
- 2018
Die tote Stadt (2018)
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Following the death of his young wife, a widower has isolated himself from the outside world. He lives solely for her memory, until one day he encounters a dancer who looks remarkably familiar. Working together with the General Music Director Ainārs ...
- 2016
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin) (2016)
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Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016....
- 1966
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Komische Oper Berlin) (1966)
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This is released as part of Art Haus' Walter Felsenstein edition. Felsenstein, a contemporary of Bertold Brecht, ran the East German Komische Oper from just after World War II to his death. Felstenstein was famous for his ensemble productions and for...
- 1970
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Komische Oper Berlin) (1970)
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Walter Felsenstein's staging of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Opera Berlin....
- 2020
Orphée aux Enfers - Salzburger Festspiele 2019 (2020)
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Offenbach’s mockery of bourgeois ideals, the sublimity of music and the institution of marriage ensures that the moralistic sermonizing of ‘Public Opinion’ falls on deaf ears. The mysterious figure of John Styx tells the story of behind-the-times Or...
- 2017
Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin) (2017)
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A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not allowed to marry her lover because her quarrelsome stepmother is against it....
- 1973
Offenbach: Bluebeard (Komische Oper Berlin) (1973)
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Ritter Blaubart is a DEFA studio recording, commissioned by East German television, of Walter Felsenstein's production of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Bluebeard in three acts at the Komische Oper Berlin. The operetta was recorded in color at the DEFA...
- 1969
Verdi: Othello (Komische Oper Berlin) (1969)
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Directed by Walter Felsenstein in 1969, this production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera chronicles the tragic tale of Othello, a Moorish general whose inability to control his feelings of mistrust and jealousy lead to his dramatic downfall. The Ber...
- 1975
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Komische Oper Berlin) (1975)
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The Marriage of Figaro that received its premiere on 26 February 1975 in the Komische Oper Berlin was Walter Felsenstein’s last production and in many respects can be regarded as representing his legacy. Having just returned from directing a guest pr...