Matti Salminen Movies
- 1980
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Das Rheingold6.3751980HD
This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of...
- 2005
Parsifal's Progress
Parsifal's Progress02005HD
A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-sce...
- 1990
Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold71990HD
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening...
- 1980
Wagner: Die Walküre
Wagner: Die Walküre6.71980HD
The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetratio...
- 2001
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)102001HD
Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for televisio...
- 1996
Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude
Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude101996HD
A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès...
- 2000
Die Zauberflöte
Die Zauberflöte02000HD
Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.
- 1999
Der Freischütz
Der Freischütz01999HD
Set in a mountainous and thickly wooded Bohemian landscape in the 17th century, Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" (The Marksman) tells the...
- 1985
Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer8.21985HD
- 1989
The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman7.21989HD
lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a skipper who's been banished to sea for all eternity. S...
- 1979
L'Incoronazione di Poppea
L'Incoronazione di Poppea01979HD
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Stag...
- 2005
Wagner - Götterdämmerung
Wagner - Götterdämmerung02005HD
Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortunately, Kupfer's interpretation places B...
- 2013
Verdi: Don Carlo
Verdi: Don Carlo02013HD
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 186...
- 2007
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde02007HD
The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological music dram...
- 2009
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Das Rheingold02009HD
In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' by La Fura dels Baus 'quite possi...
- 2010
Wagner: Die Walküre
Wagner: Die Walküre02010HD
It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who bring dead heroes to Valhalla (the cas...
- 2010
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Götterdämmerung02010HD
Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and pr...
- 1998
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail01998HD
Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records performanc...
- 1990
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung81990HD
The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production and byJames Le...
- 1990
Siegfried
Siegfried7.51990HD
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),by Richard Wagner.