Movies: José van Dam

  • 1988
    The Music Teacher

    The Music Teacher (1988)

    The Music Teacher

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    Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop ...

    The Music Teacher
  • 1979
    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni (1979)

    Don Giovanni

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    Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last c...

    Don Giovanni
  • 1984
    Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem

    Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem (1984)

    Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem

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    This installment in the "Karajan Legacy" series captures the acclaimed conductor leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Sofia National Opera in a masterful performance of Verdi's "Requiem." Filmed in 1984...

    Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
  • 1992
    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen (1992)

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

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    In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The distinct visual appearance that Sellars lent to the opera, where video monitors with powerful images are used as ...

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
  • 1996
    Verdi: Don Carlos

    Verdi: Don Carlos (1996)

    Verdi: Don Carlos

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    Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an all-star cast, loaded with important singers either starting their careers (Roberto Alagna) or at the he...

    Verdi: Don Carlos
  • 1977
    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977 (1977)

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977

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    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...

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
  • 1998
    Man of La Mancha

    Man of La Mancha (1998)

    Man of La Mancha

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    "Man of the Mancha" tells the story of the "mad" knight Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. Television broadcast of the Liège production in French ...

    Man of La Mancha
  • 1973
    Otello

    Otello (1973)

    Otello

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    Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. As the tragic Moor of Venice, arguably his greatest role, John Vickers (in the words of critic David Cairns) "commands both the ...

    Otello
  • 2010
    Don Quichotte

    Don Quichotte (2010)

    Don Quichotte

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    This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and also Jose Van Dam's operatic farewell at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. It is beautiful in every way--vocally, scenically, sonically, and visuall...

    Don Quichotte
  • 2007
    L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev

    L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev (2007)

    L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev

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    L'Opéra National de Paris' production of L'Amour des Trois Oranges must certainly be one of the most elaborate operatic presentations. It has a cast of gazillions, characters who fly, jugglers, fire-eaters, remarkably elaborate costumes, amazingly re...

    L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev
  • 1978
    Il Trovatore - Verdi

    Il Trovatore - Verdi (1978)

    Il Trovatore - Verdi

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    The gypsy Azucena (Fiorenza Cossotto) takes revenge for her mother who was accused of putting a curse on one of the old Count di Luna's two sons: she decides to abduct the younger child and throw it in the flames. But when she is about to carry out t...

    Il Trovatore - Verdi
  • 1989
    The Damnation of Faust

    The Damnation of Faust (1989)

    The Damnation of Faust

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    This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of Londons famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berliozs concert cantata. This feast of B...

    The Damnation of Faust
  • 1993
    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1993)

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

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    Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon....

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann
  • 1987
    Pelléas et Mélisande

    Pelléas et Mélisande (1987)

    Pelléas et Mélisande

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    John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon in this 1987 production of Claude Debussy’s opera of jealously and love denied, “Pelléas et Mélisande”, starring Colette Alliot-Lugaz and François Le Roux in the lead roles. The...

    Pelléas et Mélisande
  • 2011
    Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

    Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (2011)

    Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

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    This recording of the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue by Paul Dukas was staged at the Liceu in Barcelona in 2011, with Claus Guth as director, Stéphane Denève as conductor and José van Dam and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet in the leading roles....

    Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
  • 1969
    Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann

    Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (1969)

    Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann

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    Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
  • 1985
    Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1985)

    Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 2007
    Louise - Opera National de Paris

    Louise - Opera National de Paris (2007)

    Louise - Opera National de Paris

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    Late 19th-century Paris, home to Louise, her traditional working-class parents and her bohemian artist lover Julien. An opera about the tension between Louise's responsibility to her parents and her opportunity to break free with Julien....

    Louise - Opera National de Paris
  • 2016
    Amours divins !

    Amours divins ! (2016)

    Amours divins !

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    The most famous Scenes and Arias from French operas...

    Amours divins !