- Description:
- DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental features include: DVD Rom PDFs of writings by Kluge on theater (German only)
Titles
+ Power Station of Emotions, The
- Alternate Title:
- Das Kraftwerk der Gefühle: Richard Wagner und das Ruinengesetz in der Musik; The Power Station of Emotions: Richard Wagner and the Law of Ruin Value in Music
- Director:
- Kluge, Alexander
- Production Co:
- dctp
- Running Time:
- Short.   50 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1990 - 2007
- Language:
- German with optional English, Russian, Chinese, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Opera, Interview
- Notes:
- Compilation of short pieces on opera productions. With Pierre Boulez, Michael Gielen, Peter Konwitschny -First aired in 1990-2007, dctp on RTL and SAT 1 - Assuming that an observer living in the year 6000 would contemplate our period, for example, from 1607 to 2008 (approximately the era of our opera), Heiner Müller posits that this observer would find music to be the substance and crux of that period and not our palaces or other architectural structures. But what form would music take on as an antique ruin? The director and composer Pierre Boulez says that noteworthy music is when the music itself holds together its qualities as a skeleton. The composer Luigi Nono teaches us that we can also use methods from cinema, i.e. close-ups, long shots, editing, etc., in music recordings. He says you can identify the special quality of Richard Wagner, for example, through fragmenting. With Richard Wagner's Twilight of the Gods (behind the stage), The Valkyrie, Siegfried, The Flying Dutchman, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
+ 80,000 Operas!
- Alternate Title:
- 80 000 Opern!
- Director:
- Kluge, Alexander
- Production Co:
- dctp
- Running Time:
- Short.   33 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1994 - 2007
- Language:
- German with optional English, Russian, Chinese, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Opera, Interview
- Notes:
- With Robert Schulz, August Everding, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Joachim Kaiser, Lothar Zagrosek, Annette Elster, Alexander Kluge - First aired in 1994-2007, dctp on RTL and SAT 1 - All the operas put together (and there are a total of 80,000 in the history of opera) form one single score. They accompany the past 400 years of today's society like a mirror. The most modern operas provide the most powerful reply to the earliest ones. As if time didn't pass. With passages from Orpheus and The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi) and from operas by LuigiNono, Wolfgang Rihm, and Helmut Lachenmann.
+ Of Which We Cannot Speak We Must Sing!
- Alternate Title:
- Wovon Man Nicht Sprechen Kann, Davon Muß Man Singen!
- Director:
- Kluge, Alexander
- Production Co:
- dctp
- Running Time:
- Short.   13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1998 - 2006
- Language:
- German with optional English, Russian, Chinese, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Opera, Interview
- Notes:
- With Lothar Zagrosek, Catherine Naglestad, Hans Neuenfels, Julia Schölzel. Sylvia Ackermann - First aired in 1998-2006, dctp on RTL and SAT 1 - Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Why does this person speak and not sing? He longs to sing. Singing generally emerges when language becomes helpless. Ferdinand Raimund's magic plays The Alpine King and the Misanthrope and The Captive Fantasy. "For all happiness, we are loath to believe, at the end is only fantasy." Mozart's The Clemency of Titus: Servilia and Annius light a candle symbolising their love. From Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute: "The rays of the sun conquer the night and destroy the hypocrites' fraudulent power."
+ Opera Doctor, The
- Alternate Title:
- Der Opernarzt: Dr. med. Schlömicher-Thier Betreut die Salzburger Festspiele; The Opera Doctor: Dr. Schlömicher-Thier Attends to Performers at the Salzburg Festival
- Director:
- Kluge, Alexander
- Production Co:
- dctp
- Running Time:
- Short.   24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- German with optional English, Russian, Chinese, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Opera, Interview
- Notes:
- With Josef Schlömicher-Thier - First aired on: January 7, 2007, dctp on SAT 1 - Dr. med. Josef Schlömicher-Thier is an otorhinolaryngologist working at the Salzburg Festival. He is particularly interested in the marvel of the human voice, which creates the best moments of opera. What are the risks menacing the voice that the doctor has to contend with? What are the distinctive traits that make a voice ingenious?
+ I Lived for my Art
- Alternate Title:
- Prime Time Spätausgabe; Der Kunst Weiht Ich Mein Leben: Ein Bariton Outet Sich Als Doper; I Lived for my Art: A Baritone Admits to Doping
- Director:
- Kluge, Alexander
- Production Co:
- dctp
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- German with optional English, Russian, Chinese, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Opera, Interview
- Notes:
- With Peter Berling - First aired on: April 30, 2007, dtcp on RTL - Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by secretly doping. Unlike in elite sports, this goes without punishment. The famous baritone Edouard de Scaramberg tells all.