René Kollo
Also Known As: René Viktor Kollodzieyski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: November 20, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Overview: Opera in one act with prologue. Based on the production of the Vienna State Opera by Filippo Sanjust. Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-01
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Wagner's Master Singer, Hitler's Siegfried - The Life and Times of Max
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-13
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Ein Lied für Kopenhagen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-01-11
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Elektra
Overview: The richness and intensity of Richard Strauss's masterful one-act opera, in Herbert Wernicke's compelling production, vividly portrays the relentless pursuit and ecstatic realization of vengeance. Featuring Linda Watson, Jane Henschel, Manuela Uhl, Rene Kollo, and Albert Dohmen. The Philharmonia Chor Wien and Münchner Philharmoniker are conducted by Christian Thielemann
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-27
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So liebt und küsst man in Tirol
Overview: A music comedy by Franz Marischka.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Deutsche Weihnacht
Overview: A german christmas video tape, accompanied by music and christmas poems.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Gypsy Princess
Overview: Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-23
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Overview: After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction History Mystery
Original Language: en
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Beethoven Fidelio
Overview: This production is a gala affair; the sets are traditional (evocative of 18th-19th century Spain); the lighting is bright, so colors are good and one can see all of the action. Singers are generally well chosen and perform admirably. However, at this point, slight reservations creep in; although Janowitz (Fidelio/Leonore) and Kollo (Florestan) look "good" and act well, the singing parts tax them a bit when pushed to the limit. Most of the time that doesn't matter, and an argument can be made that a little vocal strain is in character with their dire plight. Ideally, for me, Vickers as Florestan would have added extra vocal heft and more sensitive acting than Kollo.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-04
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Tristan und Isolde
Overview: Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble performance of René Kollo, Johanna Meier and Matti Salminen with, then as now the Wagner admirer, Daniel Barenboim conducting the Bayreuth orchestra inspired singers and instrumentalists to peak performance. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle created a dream-beautiful stage.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Overview: Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich, with music conducted by Jiri Kout. Recorded at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-18
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The Land of Smiles
Overview: Lehar's The Land of Smiles touches the heart as it provides unforgetable melodies from start to finish. There are no weak links in the cast. Too often, we think of operetta as musical fluff, tired cliches, and obligatory dance scenes when things start slowing down. Not so in this classic operetta. We feel the pain of loss suffered by the two main characters, who make their roles natural and believable. There is more to this work than "Yours Is My Heart Alone." There is dramatic consistency and people you find yourself caring about as much as the music, the costumes, and the colorful sets.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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Die schöne Helena
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-19
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Wiener Blut
Overview: An operetta with music by Johann Strauss II. However, he did not see the premiere. Wiener Blut is set at the time of the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815, an international conference that sought to settle Europe after the upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows a traditional operetta plot full of mistaken identities. Count Balduin Zedlau, ambassador of the tiny court of Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz, is posted to Vienna. Count Zedlau is married but a real Don Juan always looking for a new encounter. Many of Strauss' compositions are used in the operetta although he did not specifically composed them for the operetta.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Arabella: Wiener Philharmoniker
Overview: Sir Georg Solti leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in this intimate film of Strauss's comedy of manners. Using traditional sets and costumes, this is the only film version available of this opera. A talented cast includes Gundula Janowitz, Edita Gruberova, Bernd Weikl and Rene Kollo.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-17
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Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Overview: Karajan's very best video Beethoven 9th Symphony, recorded December 31, 1977. The Quartet of vocal soloists and Chorus in IV are superb. This is much better than Karajan's 1968 Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven 9 video (DG), filmed in the Philharmonie with no live audience present.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Overview: "Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-08
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Ariadne Auf Naxos
Overview: Christian Thielemann conducts this Staatskapelle Dresden production of Richard Strauss' chamber opera. The opera follows events at the home of the wealthiest man in Vienna, who has booked both a comedy burlesque act and a serious opera group for entertainment. When the dinner runs long he declares that both forms of entertainment must take place at the same time - much to the chagrin of the opera's proud young composer. Filmed live in Baden-Baden on Feb. 25 by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier triumph. Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden, the orchestra to whom Strauss dedicated his Alpine Symphony and which premiered Feuersnot, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Daphne.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-25
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Solang noch Untern Linden
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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Gräfin Mariza
Overview: A countess, paying a rare visit to her estate, clashes with the man she has hired to manage it.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Ein Walzer zu zweien
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-29
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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
Overview: The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 1977 concert was conducted by Herbert von Karajan and featured Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and the Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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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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