Movies: Christopher Purves

  • 2010
    Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

    Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) (2010)

    Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)

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    Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary of the People's Front of Jud...

    Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
  • 2012
    Britten: Peter Grimes

    Britten: Peter Grimes (2012)

    Britten: Peter Grimes

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    The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for "Peter Grimes" at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A top British cast was marshaled by the baton of Robin Ticciati. Richard ...

    Britten: Peter Grimes
  • 2015
    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron (2015)

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

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    Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with t...

    Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron
  • 2013
    Glass: The Perfect American

    Glass: The Perfect American (2013)

    Glass: The Perfect American

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    The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013....

    Glass: The Perfect American
  • 2024
    Das Rheingold

    Das Rheingold (2024)

    Das Rheingold

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    Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest". In the hands of General Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and Stage Director Andreas Homoki, Wagner's myth is represented as "a dy...

    Das Rheingold
  • 2016
    Saul

    Saul (2016)

    Saul

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    Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his debut production there, calling the show a theatrical and musical feast of energetic choruses, surreal ch...

    Saul
  • 2013
    Written On Skin

    Written On Skin (2013)

    Written On Skin

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    When Written on Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Benjamin himself, it received a standing ovation. The opera's arrival at Covent Garden in 2013 was eagerly anticipated, and provided audiences with the ...

    Written On Skin
  • 2023
    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold (2023)

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold

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    When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner’s Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera s...

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Das Rheingold
  • 2024
    Siegfried

    Siegfried (2024)

    Siegfried

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    Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest". In the hands of General Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and Stage Director Andreas Homoki, Wagner's myth is represented as "a dy...

    Siegfried
  • 2024
    Götterdämmerung

    Götterdämmerung (2024)

    Götterdämmerung

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    Der Ring des Nibelungen in a production of the Zürich opera house, recorded 2024. "Dramatic music-making at its finest". In the hands of General Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and Stage Director Andreas Homoki, Wagner's myth is represented as "a dy...

    Götterdämmerung
  • 2021
    Peter Grimes

    Peter Grimes (2021)

    Peter Grimes

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    Based on a poem published in 1810 with more ethnographic than dramatic focus, Britten constructed a sombre parable about the conflict between the masses and the individual. The maritime atmosphere, the crudity of people’s lives and passions, and the ...

    Peter Grimes