Georg Zeppenfeld
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Attendorn
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Birthday: January 01, 1970
Age: 55 years old
Gender: Male
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Parsifal
Overview: The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights. With the help of seductive women, above all Kundry, he succeeds in bringing down the knights. He is even able to tempt the Grail King Amfortas into a misstep. He steals his sacred spear and inflicts an incurable wound. As a result, Amfortas' ritual duty of unveiling the Grail has become an ordeal. Only a pure fool is destined to undo the Grail King's fall from grace and reverse its devastating consequences.
Genres: Music TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-26
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Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
Overview: RICHARD WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde - Bayreuther Festspiele Stephen Gould, Evelyn Herlitzius, Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Christa Mayer Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Christian Thielemann Staged by Katharina Wagner
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-07-08
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Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023
Overview: The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-07-29
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Overview: Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, David Butt Philip plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Mozart: Die Zauberflote (SF Opera)
Overview: Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-17
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Wagner: Parsifal
Overview: German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of the title character's quest to save the Knights of the Holy Grail by returning the Holy Spear, healing King Amfortas, and carrying out the sacred ceremony of uncovering the Holy Grail.
Genres: Drama Music History Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Der fliegende Holländer
Overview: This is a performance of Wagner's three-act opera Der fliegende Holländer ("The flying Dutchman"), performed by Bayreuther Festpiele, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. The staging was notable for two other milestones, as Oksana Lyniv became the first woman to conduct at Richard Wagner’s legendary Festspielhaus since its opening in 1876, and the sensational Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian made her house debut with a standout performance as the opera’s heroine, Senta. The exceptional cast also included John Lundgren (The Dutchman), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Eric Cutler (Erik) and Marina Prudenskaya (Mary).
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-12
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Overview: This Beethoven Symphony No. 9 from the outstanding Beethoven 9 Project of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker, first time recorded in HD and 5.0 surround sound, is accompanied by a one hour-long documentary featuring Christian Thielemann and Germany´s most eminent music critic, Prof. Joachim Kaiser. From insights into Beethoven´s musical thinking to interpretational comparisons, including excerpts from performances by Karajan, Bernstein, Järvi, to historical perspectives – no aspect of Beethoven´s Symphony No. 9 will remain untreated!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden
Overview: Both Florez and Diana Damrau brought their bel canto expertise and superb vocalism to the service of Verdi's music. The Rigoletto, Zeljko Lucic, ran the gamut from tenderness with his Gilda to thundering fury with everyone else. I also liked the production. At first, when Rigoletto was putting on his grease paint during the overture, I was afraid that it might be a typical "Euro-trash" production, with a bit of warmed over I Pagliacci. But the sets and dramatic action really served the music and libretto. I would have to say that I came to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the story and characters as a result of seeing this performance.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-06-21
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Tristan Und Isolde
Overview: Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in this production of Wagner's opera recorded in 2015. Starring Stephen Gould as Tristan and Evelyn Herlitzius as Isolde, the cast also includes Georg Zeppenfeld, Iain Paterson, Raimund Nolte and Christa Mayer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-07
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Lohengrin
Overview: This performance of the Richard Wagner opera Logengrin was filmed in high definition for the Bayreuth Festival in 2011, and features vocalists like Georg Zeppenfeld, Klaus Florian Vogt, and Anette Dasch in the leading roles.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-14
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Die Zauberflöte
Overview: Live performance from the Salzburg Festival, 6 August 2012.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-06
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies
Overview: Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven Symphonies 1-9
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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Der Freischütz
Overview: Axel Köhler’s production of Der Freischütz at the Dresden State Opera was described by Die Presse as “a minor miracle in Dresden”. In the words of the Salzburger Nachrichten, Köhler “scored a bulleye” with his sombre and satanic interpretation of Weber’s Romantic opera about love, temptation, souls sold to the Devil, obsession andfaith. According to the Financial Times, Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle conjured up a sense of “mortal terror from the orchestra pit. […] Thielemann is in command of every detail. That makes for utterly gripping listening.”
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Overview: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin
Overview: A dream came true at Dresden's Semperoper in May 2016 when opera superstars Piotr Beczala and Anna Netrebko made their Wagner debuts as Lohengrin and Elsa, inspired to take on their new roles by Christian Thielmann, the Dresden Staatskapelle's principal conductor and one of the leading Wagner conductors of our day. Die Welt described the performance captured here as "musically one of the finest Lohengrins of all time". Contributing to the triumph are Evelyn Herlitzius's Ortrud. Tomasz Konieczny's Telramund, Georg Zeppenfeld's King Henry and the Dresden State Opera Chorus.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-05-22
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Fidelio
Overview: Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime. The music is transcendent throughout and includes the famous Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry in the darkness and vision of hope. Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings together the dark reality of the French Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring message of shared humanity.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-03-09
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Lohengrin
Overview: After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the mythical Wagner festival, releasing each edition's new production on Blu-ray. This year, we are proud to release on Blu-ray the celebrated production of Lohengrin which was premiered on 25 July 2018, featuring an illustrious cast including Piotr Beczala and Anja Harteros in their house debuts, as well as the acclaimed return of Waltraud Meier to the Bayreuth Festival. The New York Times praised Piotr Beczala’s Lohengrin as “outstanding”, Anja Harteros [making] her impressive Bayreuth debut” as Elsa, and Ortrud “played with dominant presence by the incomparable Waltraud Meier”.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-07-05
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Fierrabras
Overview: Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this heroic-romantic opera has now been staged for the first time ever at the Salzburg Festival by famous director Peter Stein. Based on an old French 12th-century epic, the plot depicts the military conflict between Christians and Moors at the time of Charlemagne – as a backdrop to stories of love and friendship that prove to be stronger than war and hatred of otherness. The strong cast includes the “marvellously expressive miracle Dorothea Röschmann” (Die Zeit) and “Michael Schade, who exudes his exceptional tenor in Fierrabras’s heroic arias” (Der neue Merker). Under the energetic baton of lngo Metzmacher, the Vienna Philharmonic unfold “the melos, the poetry, the sweetness and the dramatic force of Schubert’s highly refined and atmospheric sound worlds” (Kleine Zeitung) in highly romantic fashion.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-06-01
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Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-04
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The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie
Overview: 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 Walküre is situated in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seized by the Bolsheviks in 1920 for its oil, whereas Siegfried takes place in a socialist equivalent of Mount Rushmore and at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Götterdämmerung is set somewhere in the GDR, ending up at New York’s stock exchange. Whilst Castorf’s staging polarized, Marek Janowski’s musical reading was unanimously praised, as was the excellent cast including in this opera Iain Paterson (Wotan), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Albert Dohmen (Alberich) and Roberto Saccà (Loge)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-21
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Verdi: Nabucco
Overview: A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-06-23
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Tristan und Isolde
Overview: Through the power of a love potion, Tristan and Isolde have fatefully fallen for each other, but Princess Isolde is promised to Marke, the king and Tristan's liege lord. The lovers live their connection in secret, which inevitably has to be discovered and leads to catastrophe. The visually stunning production by Marco Arturo Marelli prepares the ground for the secret of this love in space and color, captured in Richard Wagner's opera, which premiered in 1865, in which the music becomes almost the sole carrier of the plot.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-21
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Beethoven: Symphonies 7-9
Overview: Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 and 9
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-29
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