Alban Berg: Wozzeck
In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight t
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In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight t
Vera Nemirova’s challenging production of Berg’s operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2010. It was successfully repeated in 2011, when the production was filmed for D
The Prenzlauer Berg district in the former East Berlin was a particularly intense example of the "short summer of anarchy" on the heels of the fall of the Wall. This merry, teary swan song is a pastiche of dancing senior
Tom and Katie are looking for Harry. He is found by Monika and her father, but he can't remember anything. He has visited the fabled mountain that should be avoided as it is ruled by the Coppas tribe...
Adolf Hitler spent over 1,000 days on the Obersalzberg, his mountain holiday refuge near Berchtesgaden. It was there he made his decisions about war and destruction. The producers, through special permits, explore the ab
Bob Witt and Cy Berg perform "My Honolulu Hula Girl" and "Hello, Aloha (How Are You?)" in this early Vitaphone short.
Grossglockner is Austria’s highest peak and the eastern Alps’ most impressive summit. Rising to a height of almost 3900 meters, the ‘BLACK MOUNTAIN’ towers over an Alpine natural paradise, the Hohe Tauern National Park,
The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer.
A man excavating a 4,000-year-old city; philosophers living in huts; children finding out something terrible; and a young woman who has disappeared. Something intangible between fact and fiction. In the end, fire and may
A mountain railroad is to be built in a previously untouched mountain region in the Alps, bringing tourists and big money with them. But an accident occurs during the construction of the cable car.
High up in the mountains, a peasant family drags themselves through the towering granite blocks with all their possessions to make a new home for themselves. The mountains, however, have no interest in seeing them make
A deeply moving performance... one of those nights when it was a privilege to be at the Met." That's how the New York Times described the company's 2001 revival of Berg's Wozzeck, conducted by James Levine and captured i
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie