Jan-Hendrik Rootering
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Birthday: March 18, 1950
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The Magic Flute
1983-07-02
The Magic Flute
Overview: The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.
Genres: Music Romance Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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Die Walküre
2004-04-19
Die Walküre
Overview: Part of Stuttgart Ring Cycle 2002/2003 - First Day
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-19
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Das Rheingold
1990-04-23
Das Rheingold
Overview: 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 Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the scenic world of Wagner’s Ring as brilliantly as James Levine and the Met orchestra capture the musical world. The cast is incomporable: an astounding James Morris as the young god Wotan, the great Christa Ludwig as his wife Fricka, incandescent Siegfried Jerusalem as Loge, the wily god of fire, and Ekkehard Wlaschiha as a complex Alberich.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-04-23
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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
1993-04-07
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Overview: The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade earlier it has lost some of its original velvety body and luster. As Parsifal, Jerusalem is starting to show some wear and tear on his voice at the Met in 1992 as opposed to his prime form at Bayreuth in 1981, but is still quite good; only Placido Domingo could compete with him in the role at that time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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Parsifal
2011-02-20
Parsifal
Overview: A mythical performance from la Monnaie - Bruxelles. Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by Nietzsche? And what does the secret society of knights based on pure blood signify, desperately waiting for the saviour to regenerate it? What is the true nature of the opposition between the worlds of Klingsor and the Grail? What can Parsifal tell us today? In his artistic will and testament, Wagner condenses his moral idea of the world and returns to the roots of love and religion - to the very heart of art according to him. With the participation of conductor Hartmut Haenchen who is passionated by the score, Italian stage director Romeo Castellucci proposes an original reading of this brilliant work and explores the essence of Wagnerian ‘Kunstreligion’ in a different light.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-20
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
1994-01-01
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Overview: A production of Die Frau ohne Schatten filmed in Japan.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Overview: David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal technical conditions made possible by a closed session. Alden, one of the most iconoclastic interpreters of classical opera, stirs up the visionary, erotic, and archetypal elements in Wagner's work. The cold, forbidding aspect of the stylized and predominantly monochrome sets and costumes by Roni Toren and Buki Shiff manifests the strait-jacket of tradition from which Tannhäuser seeks to free himself in this powerful opera.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
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