Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Sound
Biography
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Born: December 6, 1929
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
La Clemenza di Tito
The 1791 La Clemenza di Tito (or 'The Clemency of Titus') marked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final opera seria. With a libretto by Metastasio (edited slightly by Caterino Mazzolà), the work dramatizes the palace intrigues surrounding emperor Titus's attempts to coronate a new bride and the envious Vitellia's attempts to have Titus assassinated (with the help of Titus's friend Sextus) following the deposition of Vitellia's emperor father. Stage director Martin Kušej mounted Tito in August 2003, at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg; a film of that live performance now appears in this home video release. The cast includes Michael Schade as Titus, Vesselina Kasarova as Sextus and Dorothea Roschmann as Vitellia. The Wiener Staatsopernchor, under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, provides musical accompaniment; Jens Kilian designed the sets.
NDR Talk Show
The Marriage of Figaro
This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro that was directed for the stage by Claus Guth at that year's Salzburg Festival. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo takes the title role, and gets support from Anna Netrebko as Sussanna, Bo Skovhus as Il Conte Di Almaviva, and Dorothea Roschmann as La Contessa. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the orchestra.
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Mozart: Mitridate Re Di Ponto
Soprano Yvonne Kenny turns in a spirited performance as Aspasia in this brilliant staging of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first notable opera -- penned when he was only 14 years old. The production, set in early Roman times, follows the inner circle of the empire's most formidable foe, King Mithridates of Pontus. Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the sterling cast, which includes tenor Gosta Winbergh and mezzo-soprano Ann Murray.
Kulturplatz
New Year's Concert 2003
The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert for 2003.
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs the Concentus Musicus Wien and Toelzer Knabenchor in Bach's masterwork. Featured soloists are Peter Schreier and Robert Holl. The performance was filmed in 1982 at the Stiftskirche in Waldhause, Austria.
Il Ballo Delle Ingrate
Monteverdi's mini-opera, starring Cathy Berberian.
Mission Mozart - Lang Lang & Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Filmography
as Conductor
as Dirigent
as Himself
as Self - Conductor
as Conductor
as Self - Conductor
as Himself
as Self
as Conductor
as Conductor
as Self - Conductor
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as Conductor
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as Self - Conductor
as Self
as Self - Conductor
as Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen