This film is a perfomance of the work recorded in Tokyo during the Deutsche Oper Berlin's 1993 Japan tour in Götz Friedrich's highly respected, much-discussed staging.

Roman Zaslavsky understands how to contrast the two ingenious opposites Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt side by side, on one recording giving each one his due, thus offering a completely new approach to their music and also to two rather different…

Deliberate confusion in 18th-century Seville which is entangled with three marriages blessed by the monks of the monastery. After performances at the famous 'Stars of the White Nights'Festival held in St. Petersburg and the 1991 - 92 festival…

The great German baritone reveals for the first time on camera the secrets of his outstanding career. This richly illustrated profile of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest musician of all singers and the most prolific singer of our time, is an…

The Great Mass is the spiritual keystone of a choreographic undertaking in which Uwe Scholz absorbs the structure of the liturgy of the mass. He adds to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Great Mass in C minor other works by the same composer, such…

Die Walküre continues the story of the Rhinedaughters' gold, the Ring of power which was forged from it, and the curse which falls on ist owner. The action moves to the earth - where Siegmund and Sieglinde, the mortal children of Wotan, are…

The historical opera by Tchaikovsky is set in the events of the years at the turn of the 17th and 18th century when Peter I. became Tsar of Russia and Mazeppa, the leader of the Ukrainian cosacks. It is a story of Mazeppa's political power and…

Set in 1185, the opera tells the story of Prince Igor, ruler of the Russian city of Putivl, and his son, who want to subjugate the heathen Mongolian tribe of the Polovtsians. It is a spectacle of war, intrigue and love illustrated by impressive stage…

Four German soloists, currently enjoying prime positions on the international concert scene, join together to perform Mozart's remarkable piano quartets in the Ludwigsburger Palace.

The third part of the Ring cycle focuses on Siegfried, the child of Sieglinde and Siegmund. His upbringing has been wild end free, and he has never learned the meaning of fear. As he struggles to break free from his past and to forge his own destiny…