Roland Bracht
Actor
Movies7
Movie10.0MusicThe French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
Manon Lescaut - Royal Opera House
2015 · 1 votes
MovieMusicComedyRequiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met those challenges with stunning success.
MovieStuttgart 1981
Der Freischütz
1981
- Movie5.5Music
Legendary director Hans Neuenfels once again proves his great skill with this interpretation of Mozart’s “Entführung aus dem Serail” (Abduction from the Seraglio). This extraordinary production conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, and with Catherine Naglestad, Kate Ladner and Matthias Klink in the main roles, won the Bavarian Theatre Prize in 1999 and offers a refreshingly new view of one of the most frequently played operas worldwide. Special highlight: Neuenfels places an actor at every singer’s side who not only takes over his role for the spoken original scripts, but also interacts with his singing double and other characters of the piece. In recent decades, directors have sought to revitalise the somewhat naive plot of the “Entführung” with fresh interpretations. Hans Neuenfels, who produced his “first Mozart” here in Stuttgart, retains the story’s naivety and absurdity. He does this in a very stimulating and intelligent way.
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
1998 · 4 votes
Movie6.9DramaMusicRigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies man who feels his life would be meaningless if he couldn't chase every skirt he sees. In fact, we learn as the opera begins that he's recently been noticing a young lady every Sunday on her way to church, and he's vowed to have his way with her. What nobody realizes is that the girl is the jester's beloved daughter, Gilda, and that Gilda has seen the Duke every Sunday and is smitten with him. Suddenly Count Monterone appears at court, furious that the Duke has seduced his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them. Later, the courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda...
Movie7.0MusicEve of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Joachim Schlömer (Stuttgart State Opera 1999, recorded live at the end of 2002).
Das Rheingold
2003 · 1 votes
MovieMusicThird day of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Peter Konwitschny (Stuttgart State Opera 2000, recorded live on October 3, 2002 and January 12, 2003). Albert Bonnema as Siegfried, Luana DeVol as Brünnhilde, Roland Bracht as Hagen. Lothar Zagrosek conducts the Stuttgart State Orchestra and the Stuttgart State Opera Chorus.
Götterdämmerung
2004