Matti Salminen Movies

  • 1980
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    6.3751980HD

    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...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 2005
    Parsifal's Progress

    Parsifal's Progress

    Parsifal's Progress

    02005HD

    A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-sce...

    Parsifal's Progress
  • 1990
    Das Rheingold

    Das Rheingold

    Das Rheingold

    71990HD

    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...

    Das Rheingold
  • 1980
    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    6.71980HD

    The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetratio...

    Wagner: Die Walküre
  • 2001
    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

    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...

    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)
  • 1996
    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

    101996HD

    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...

    Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude
  • 2000
    Die Zauberflöte

    Die Zauberflöte

    Die Zauberflöte

    02000HD

    Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.

    Die Zauberflöte
  • 1999
    Der Freischütz

    Der Freischütz

    Der Freischütz

    01999HD

    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...

    Der Freischütz
  • 1985
    Der fliegende Holländer

    Der fliegende Holländer

    Der fliegende Holländer

    8.21985HD

    Der fliegende Holländer
  • 1989
    The Flying Dutchman

    The Flying Dutchman

    The Flying Dutchman

    7.21989HD

    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...

    The Flying Dutchman
  • 1979
    L'Incoronazione di Poppea

    L'Incoronazione di Poppea

    L'Incoronazione di Poppea

    01979HD

    Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Stag...

    L'Incoronazione di Poppea
  • 2005
    Wagner - Götterdämmerung

    Wagner - Götterdämmerung

    Wagner - Götterdämmerung

    02005HD

    Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortunately, Kupfer's interpretation places B...

    Wagner - Götterdämmerung
  • 2013
    Verdi: Don Carlo

    Verdi: Don Carlo

    Verdi: Don Carlo

    02013HD

    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...

    Verdi: Don Carlo
  • 2007
    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde

    02007HD

    The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological music dram...

    Tristan und Isolde
  • 2009
    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    Wagner: Das Rheingold

    02009HD

    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...

    Wagner: Das Rheingold
  • 2010
    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    02010HD

    Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and pr...

    Wagner: Götterdämmerung
  • 2010
    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    Wagner: Die Walküre

    02010HD

    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...

    Wagner: Die Walküre
  • 1998
    Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

    Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

    Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

    01998HD

    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...

    Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
  • 1990
    Siegfried

    Siegfried

    Siegfried

    7.51990HD

    Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),by Richard Wagner.

    Siegfried
  • 1990
    Götterdämmerung

    Götterdämmerung

    Götterdämmerung

    81990HD

    The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production and byJames Le...

    Götterdämmerung