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- Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore One of the most enduringly popular operas in the repertoire, Il Trovatore was first seen at Rome's Teatro Apollo in 1853. Together with Rigoletto and La Traviata, it forms the "trilogy" of works that premiered in rapid succession over a period of just two years and firmly established Verdi as the leading opera composer of his time. The challenges of Il Trovatore's leading roles famously led Enrico Caruso to remark that all you needed to stage it were the "four best singers in the world."
- Verdi's larger-than-life opera Aida is even larger than usual on the palatial outdoor stage at the Arena di Verona - and in 3D on the movie screen! This audience favorite shines in a stunning production, celebrating Verdi's 200th birthday year and the 100th anniversary of the Arena di Verona's opera series.
- God sends Death to summon the rich bon viveur Jedermann who is then abandoned by his friends, his wealth and his lover.
- When Korean composer Unsuk Chin's opera was first performed by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, it caused a sensation among music critics worldwide. Based on Lewis Carroll's famous and fascinatingly enigmatic novel Alice in Wonderland, it is a seductive, enchanting, sensuous opera set to a modern, ear-pleasing score - a triumph of creative fantasy. Unsuk Chin was born in Seoul in 1961, studied with György Ligeti in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. She has an acute ear for instrumentation, orchestral colours and rhythmic imagery. Her compositions are modern in language but lyrical in their communicative power. Kent Nagano, a long-time supporter of Chin's music, expertly conducted the Bavarian State Opera and a team of wonderful singer-actors including international stars like Dietrich Henschel and Gwyneth Jones. The opera about Alice's search for her identity - "her reality in the appearance of the world" - as director Achim Freyer put it, switches from delicacy to cuteness to grotesquery and back again. The rather conventional Alice starts following her dreams, meeting a white rabbit that guides her through a wonderland. Alice views it all with amazement and learns - finally returning to the real world, richer for the experience. The phenomenal fairy-tale settings and production were in the hands of Achim Freyer, who created a firework of colour and form. The marvellous costumes and puppets were created by Nina Weitzner, who was named "Costume Designer of the Year" by the German music magazine Opernwelt for her imaginative designs. And in a survey of the magazine's opera critics, Unsuk Chin's opera, which closed Kent Nagano's first season at the Bavarian State Opera, was hailed as the "World Première of the Year". This live recording of the premiere in the Nationaltheater in Munich in June 2007 provides a feast of audiovisual entertainment.
- "Tannhauser" is an opera by Richard Wagner divided in three acts and based on the fight between pure and carnal love. This modern version changes the original medieval story to the present days.
- More than 500 years in the history of music represent more than 500 years in the history of mankind: blood-thirsty wars, powdered kings, power-hungry Popes, highly intellectual philosophers and mysterious affairs.
- Mustafà, the Bey of Algiers, is fed up with his wife and resolves to discard her for someone with more exotic charms: an attractive Italian girl would be just the ticket.
- Puccini's musical vision of the American West is vividly brought to life in Giancarlo Del Monaco's atmospheric production. Deborah Voigt is Minnie, the girl of the title and owner of a bar in a Californian mining camp. Marcello Giordani sings Dick Johnson, the bandit-turned-lover hunted by the cynical sheriff Jack Rance (Lucio Gallo), who wants Minnie for himself. Complete with whiskey-drinking cowboys, gunplay, a poker game, and a snowstorm, La Fanciulla del West is Puccini at his most colorful.
- The Second Life offers a fascinating glimpse of the reality of Karajan's work in the recording studio, painting a nuanced portrait of the conductor and his musical ideas. This film includes interviews and a wealth of archival footages never shown before, depicting Karajan during rehearsals and recording sessions, including works that have not been shown under his baton previously on film or TV.
- Ailing courtesan Violetta allows herself to fall for Alfredo, but when word of their domestic bliss reaches his father, he convinces her to save the family honor, and leave Alfredo. Complications ensue.
- A selfish hero regrets his apathetic rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend.