Movies: László Polgár

  • 2006
    Rigoletto

    Rigoletto (2006)

    Rigoletto

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    Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo....

    Rigoletto
  • 1996
    Linda di Chamounix

    Linda di Chamounix (1996)

    Linda di Chamounix

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    Acclaimed soprano Edita Gruberova stars as the title character in this 1996 production of Gaetano Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix," featuring the Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House under the direction of conductor Adam Fischer. Secretly i...

    Linda di Chamounix
  • 2004
    Pelléas et Mélisande

    Pelléas et Mélisande (2004)

    Pelléas et Mélisande

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    Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premier...

    Pelléas et Mélisande
  • 2001
    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House) (2001)

    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

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    Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for television and video by Brian Large....

    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)
  • 1989
    Mozart: The Magic Flute

    Mozart: The Magic Flute (1989)

    Mozart: The Magic Flute

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    A delightful fairy tale, Mozart's final operatic legacy remains a great work in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Intertwining music of awesome purity and beauty with the conventions of musical comedy, it explores Man's search for truth and his confus...

    Mozart: The Magic Flute
  • 2007
    Fierrabras

    Fierrabras (2007)

    Fierrabras

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    Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Chanson de Roland and the legend of the love between Eginhard and Emma. Live performance from 2007 at the Opernhaus Zürich....

    Fierrabras
  • 2002
    Paisiello Nina

    Paisiello Nina (2002)

    Paisiello Nina

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    The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and seems very difficult to be performed if the singer has no acting talents. Therefore we adore Cecilia Bartoli for the magnificent performance as the cra...

    Paisiello Nina
  • 1999
    Der Freischütz

    Der Freischütz (1999)

    Der Freischütz

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    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 tale of Max, a young gamekeeper. Max is in love with Agathe, daughter of the head ranger to Prince ...

    Der Freischütz