Hans Günter Nöcker

Wolfgang Sawallisch: Hindemith: Cardillac

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Brian Large

Donald McIntyre, Maria de Francesca-Cavazza

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and then abandon, featuring Donald McIntyre and Maria de Francesca-Cavazza in the starring roles. Filmed in 1985 at the Bavarian State Opera and directed by the legendary Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, the production captures every nuance of Hindemith's powerful tale of love, suspicion and betrayal. Opera Performance, recorded at 16-25 September 1985 at the National Theater in Munich.

Die Ägyptische Helena - Bayerische Staatsoper

Gwyneth Jones, Klaus König

Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Capriccio

Ernst Poettgen

Gerda Scheyrer, Hans Günter Nöcker