Otto Schenk Movies

Stage performance by the Theater in der Josefstadt.

The manufacturer Xaver Frey is forced into bankruptcy by his bank and decides to commit suicide in a sleeping car from Vienna to Venice. There he...

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of...

Austrian version of the novel "12 Chairs". While on vacation with her grandfather in Vienna, Samantha learns that she's inherited something. But upon...

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his...

This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Domingo (Gustavus), Katia Ricciarelli...

A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.

Hannes Engel is a successful radio presenter in the countryside. By chance, he is heard by program director Conrad Scheffer one night, who...

Small war among pensioners: The charming chaotic Walter Hofer and the pedant Eberhard Gatzweiler have had a love-hate relationship for decades. Not...

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag...

Retired coffee house owner Franz is a real hypochondriac. When he overhears the doctor's prognosis during a visit to the doctor, everything is clear...