Movies: Christopher Ventris

  • 2016
    The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie

    The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie (2016)

    The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie

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    Frank Castorf’s staging of the Ring, premiered in 2013 and filmed in 2016, provoked controversy right from the beginning. For Castorf, the Rheingold of our days is oil; thus he places the first part of the tetralogy at a gas station on Route 66. Die ...

    The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie
  • 2002
    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2002)

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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    A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona....

    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  • 2007
    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2007)

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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    Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1934 and was a success until Stalin saw it two years later, resulting in a Pravda review that viciously condemned it. It was later replaced by an expurg...

    Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
  • 2005
    Parsifal's Progress

    Parsifal's Progress (2005)

    Parsifal's Progress

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    A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips of the live performances provide a documentary analysis of the opera on the qu...

    Parsifal's Progress
  • 2017
    Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)

    Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer) (2017)

    Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)

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    Iván Fischer makes his DNO debut. He conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Pierre Audi, artistic director of DNO and the Holland Festival, directs his first new DNO production since Saint François d'Assise (2008). For Parsifal Audi once again j...

    Parsifal: Dutch National Opera (Fischer)
  • 2005
    Parsifal

    Parsifal (2005)

    Parsifal

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    Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director....

    Parsifal
  • 2009
    Pfitzner: Palestrina

    Pfitzner: Palestrina (2009)

    Pfitzner: Palestrina

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    Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera ...

    Pfitzner: Palestrina
  • 1995
    The Makropulos Case

    The Makropulos Case (1995)

    The Makropulos Case

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    Recorded at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Leos Janacek's opera follows the exploits of Emilia Marty (Anja Silja), a sexually irresistible prima donna who experiences everything imaginable in her long life, which lasts longer than 300 years. ...

    The Makropulos Case