Movies: Sarah Connolly

  • 2005
    Giulio Cesare

    Giulio Cesare (2005)

    Giulio Cesare

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    David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare manages to combine serious insight with entertainment, bringing Handel's masterpiece to life in a powerful, convincing and highly intelligent way. ln every line of the complex narrative the subtle nuances a...

    Giulio Cesare
  • 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
  • 2013
    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (2013)

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

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    Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the hear of David McVicar's powerfully stark production for English National Opera as 'an everyday sort of woman...

    Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
  • 2012
    L'incoronazione di Poppea

    L'incoronazione di Poppea (2012)

    L'incoronazione di Poppea

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    Love conquers all – ruthlessly and irresistibly – as Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea remove the obstacles to their union. At Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu David Alden’s visually sumptuous production, with its suggestions of a giant game of c...

    L'incoronazione di Poppea
  • 2018
    Glyndebourne: Hamlet

    Glyndebourne: Hamlet (2018)

    Glyndebourne: Hamlet

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    Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the es...

    Glyndebourne: Hamlet
  • 1997
    A Night with Handel

    A Night with Handel (1997)

    A Night with Handel

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    Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with Handel, stylishly dramatises some of the composer's most beautiful arias, linked together over the cour...

    A Night with Handel
  • 2018
    Royal Opera House Live: La Valquiria

    Royal Opera House Live: La Valquiria (2018)

    Royal Opera House Live: La Valquiria

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    Antonio Pappano conducts a full performance of the second opera in Richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen. During a storm, Sieglinde gives shelter to a wounded stranger. They find themselves drawn to each other. He is Siegmund, the twin from w...

    Royal Opera House Live: La Valquiria
  • 1995
    The Cunning Little Vixen

    The Cunning Little Vixen (1995)

    The Cunning Little Vixen

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    Nicholas Hytner's enchanting production, sung in the original Czech, is conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, a master of the best Janacek style. Through myriad shifts of scene, the episodic story is presented in brightly-colored sets and costumes of b...

    The Cunning Little Vixen
  • 2018
    Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper

    Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper (2018)

    Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper

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    It is a work charged with jealousy and intrigue, with struggles and betrayal: Ariodante, Handel’s first work for the then brand new Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. At that time, the composer was faced with fierce competition, was financially stricken...

    Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper
  • 2014
    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie (2014)

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie

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    Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world’s leading performers, conductors and interpreters of Baroque repertoire, not only with Le Concert d’Astrée, the ensemble she founded in 2000, but with several of the world’s greatest orchest...

    Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
  • 2014
    Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera)

    Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera) (2014)

    Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera)

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    Topi Lehtipuu and Anne-Catherine Gillet star in the 2012 Opera National de Paris production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. Also starring Sarah Connolly and Stephane Degout....

    Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera)
  • 2010
    Hippolyte and Aricie

    Hippolyte and Aricie (2010)

    Hippolyte and Aricie

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    In Glyndebournes first-ever staging of a opera by Rameau, director Jonathan Kent presents a production which, in his own words, strives to appeal to every sense and show audiences how engrossing and musically ravishing French Baroque opera can be. Ra...

    Hippolyte and Aricie
  • 2011
    Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)

    Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) (2011)

    Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)

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    The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly have already acquired legendary status – glorious reviews and many awards for their recordings testifying to their continuing success. At Leipzig’s International Mahler Festiv...

    Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)