Bernard Haitink Movies
- 2008
Katharina Thalbach produced and directed for the stage this 2008 interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1814 opera Fidelio, mounted at the opernhaus zürich - with the luminous Melanie Diener in the double role of Leonore and Fidelio, Roberto Saccà as Florestan, Kresimir Strazanac as Don Fernando and Lucio Gallo as Don Pizarro. The Zurich Opera Chorus and Orchestra provide musical accompaniment, with Bernard Haitink serving as musical director and Ernst Raffelsberg as chorus master; Ezio Toffolutti designed the sets. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Melanie Diener, Roberto Saccà, (more)
- 1999
Guiseppe Verdi's lavish Shakespearian epic opens London's newly-restored Royal Opera House in this performance originally broadcast live on the BBC in December of 1999. Directed by Graham Vick and featuring Bryn Terfel in the role of Sir John Falstaff and Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford, this release features The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House conducted by Bernard Haitink . ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bryn Terfel
- 1994
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This performance of Mozart's opera, Le Nozze di Figaro features the vocal talents of Gerald Finley in the title role. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
- 1989
The late maestro Artur Rubinstein headlines this classical concert from 1989, wherein he conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in interpretations of symphonic works by Chopin, Schubert, Brahms and Beethoven. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- 1988
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Acclaimed soprano Marie McLaughlin headlines this performance of Guiseppe Verdi's heartbreaking tale of ill-fated love directed for the stage by Sir Peter Hall and featuring conductor Bernard Haitink leading the London Philharmonic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marie McLaughlin, Walter Mac Neil, (more)
This video presents the comic opera Albert Herring, staged at Glyndebourne in 1985. Peter Hall directs the cast in the coming of age story of a repressed young man whose life takes unexpected turns after he is named "King of May" in his English village. No honorable young woman can be found to be queen on May Day, and so the virtuous Albert takes the part. The performance stars John Graham-Hall in the title role, along with Patricia Johnson and Felicity Palmer. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, Rovi
- 1984
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Richard Strauss' Arabella, set in Vienna during the 1860s, opens with Countess von Waldner asking a fortuneteller to help save her family from their enormous debts. The mystic assures the Countess that her daughter, Arabella will marry into extreme wealth. Soon after, a young officer named Matteo pleads with Zdenka, the Waldners' son (in fact, a girl brought up as a boy), to help him win Arabella; unbeknownst to Matteo, Zdenka secretly carries a torch for him herself. Zdenka pleads Matteo's case with her sister, but Arabella dismisses him, as she does all who have sought her hand. Meanwhile, the Count has sent a photograph of Arabella to the rich Mandryka, hoping to arrange a marriage. The rich man's nephew, who is also named Mandryka, has intercepted the letter and makes his interest in Arabella known to the Count. At a grand ball, Arabella meets her new suitor and is instantly taken with him, accepting his proposal. However, Mandryka overhears Zdenka hatching a plot to get Matteo into Arabella's bedroom and thinks the worst. In fact, Zdenka has tricked Matteo; in the darkness of the room, he believes he is seducing Arabella rather than Zdenka. Mandryka challenges Matteo to a duel, but Zdenka reveals the truth of her deception. Learning the truth, Matteo takes Zdenka as his own and Arabella and Mandryka pledge their troth. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi
- 1981
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This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies and the hapless lovers caught in their magic spells has delighted audiences for centuries. This show takes place at Glyndebourne's Festival Opera. Ileana Cortrubus, Curt Appelgren, and James Bowman star in the production. The London Philharmonic provides the musical accompaniment. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, Rovi
- 1979
Elisabeth Söderström and Curt Applegren headline this performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's classic Fidelio in an elaborate performance staged at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 1979 and featuring the Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra performing under the wand of conductor Bernard Haitink. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Elisabeth Söderström, Curt Appelgren, (more)
- 1978
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Felicity Lott and Leo Gocke headline this performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's elaborate opera captured live at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 1978 and featuring stage production by John Cox. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1977
This performance of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni features the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benjamin Luxon
- 1974
In this music release, Russian-born classical pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy performs Ludwig von Beethoven's piano concertos before a live audience, with symphonic accompaniment by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Bernard Haitink. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- 1974
- PG
Director Ken Russell made a number of biographical films of composers' lives including The Music Lovers, (about Tchaikovsky) and Lisztomania. Russell embellished the other films with certain characteristic flourishes, which include a focus on the composers' sexual obsessions, poetically telling anachronisms, and scenes which show Richard Wagner in a bad light. The story of Mahler is recounted in a much less complex and flamboyant manner and is a relatively reverent study of the life and work of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, here played by Robert Powell. The film tackles the touchy dilemma of Mahler's Jewishness in the anti-Semitic atmosphere of 19th-century Vienna. He converts to Christianity, which has no effect on his brilliant musical output but which eats away at his physical and mental well-being. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was a conductor and composer of the late Romantic era and specialized in huge symphonic works. Though his works were performed widely during his lifetime, they were less and less-often played until Leonard Bernstein's active campaign on their behalf brought him renewed recognition as a composer of the first rank, every bit the peer of Brahms or Stravinsky. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, (more)
- 1970
This Latin rendition of Sophocles by Stravinsky and Cocteau performed at the Carre Theater in Amsterdam contains the Stravinsky/George Balanchine collaborative dance number "The Flood." ~ Rovi
