Movies: Philip Langridge

  • 2004
    Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov (2004)

    Boris Godunov

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    The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky’s masterpiece and his only complete opera. It’s a vast sprawling tape...

    Boris Godunov
  • 2008
    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

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    This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met’s popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, w...

    The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
  • 1998
    Boris Godunov [Salzburger Festpielhaus]

    Boris Godunov [Salzburger Festpielhaus] (1998)

    Boris Godunov [Salzburger Festpielhaus]

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    Boris Godunov [Salzburger Festpielhaus]
  • 1991
    La Clemenza Di Tito

    La Clemenza Di Tito (1991)

    La Clemenza Di Tito

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    Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791. This rarely-seen masterpiece was Mozart's last opera. Nicholas Hytner's elegant staging for the Glyndebourne F...

    La Clemenza Di Tito
  • 2008
    The Minotaur

    The Minotaur (2008)

    The Minotaur

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    This staging of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur features John Tomlinson, Johann Reuter, Christine Rice, and Andrew Watts in the main roles. Stephen Langridge directed the production for the stage, and Antonio Pappano conducted the orchestra....

    The Minotaur
  • 1994
    Peter Grimes

    Peter Grimes (1994)

    Peter Grimes

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    Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role....

    Peter Grimes
  • 1997
    Billy Budd

    Billy Budd (1997)

    Billy Budd

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    John Dexter’s brilliant production of Britten’s searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall. The great James Morris is Claggart, master-at-arms on the 18th-century wa...

    Billy Budd
  • 2004
    Mozart - Idomeneo

    Mozart - Idomeneo (2004)

    Mozart - Idomeneo

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    Recorded live at The Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Idomeneo, King of Crete, has been away from home during the long years of the Trojan War. Idamante, his son and now regent of the island, waits for his return, heralded by the arrival in Crete of Tro...

    Mozart - Idomeneo
  • 1987
    Wozzeck

    Wozzeck (1987)

    Wozzeck

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    1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle...

    Wozzeck
  • 1993
    Oedipus Rex

    Oedipus Rex (1993)

    Oedipus Rex

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    Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that,...

    Oedipus Rex
  • 1989
    Jenufa

    Jenufa (1989)

    Jenufa

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    The embittered widow, Kostelnicka, drowns her infant grandson to save her beloved stepdaughter Jenufa from the shame and hardship of raising an illegitimate child....

    Jenufa