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Genre : Biography,drama Written by : Charles Wood Directed by : Tony Palmer Starring : Richard Burton,Vanessa Redgrave,Gemma Craven,Marthe Keller.Ronald Pickup,László Gálffi,Miguel Herz-Kestranek,John Gielgud,Ralph Richardson,Laurence Olivier Running time : 466 minutes Country of origin : UK Original language : English Production company : Hungarofilm Episode Episode 1 Wagner is a respected composer based in Dresden where he works as royal court conductor for the King of Saxony. Although his wife, Minna, enjoys their life and status, Wagner is bored with his work for the ageing king and spends most of his time writing revolutionary pamphlets against the establishment and aristocracy. Eventually, the May Uprising breaks out in which Wagner becomes an important figure. When Saxon and Prussian troops crush the uprising, Wagner becomes a wanted man and is forced to flee to Zurich. Episode 2 After refusing to join her husband for quite some time, Minna eventually agrees to move to Zurich to be reunited with Wagner. She manages to persuade Wagner to start conducting and composing again and urges him to travel to France. In Bordeaux he meets a wealthy Scottish emigree, Mrs Taylor, who agrees to become a patron of Wagner’s although he has a brief affair with her married daughter. Upon travelling to Paris, Wagner is ordered to leave the city at once and return to Zurich. In Zurich he meets up with his good friend Franz Liszt, while also taking on a pupil, Karl Ritter, the son of another patron, Mrs Ritter. Episode 3 Wagner’s health deteriorates and he suffers from various illnesses. Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck, becomes yet another one of his patrons and offers him the cottage on her estate as his residence. Once installed in the cottage, Wagner begins a passionate correspondence with Mathilde, which upsets both Mathilde’s husband, Otto, and Wagner’s wife, Minna, who seeks solace in increasing amounts of laudanum. Wagner, who starts composing Tristan und Isolde for Mathilde, is also visited by his good friend Hans von Bulow, and his new bride Cosima, Liszt’s daughter. After a while, Minna works up the courage to confront Wagner and Mathilde about their correspondence. Episode 4 Wagner moves to Venice to finish his Tristan & Isolde. When Karl Ritter informs him that Mrs Ritter is no longer able to provide Wagner with money, he ends their friendship and travels to Paris. In Paris he is ordered by the French emperor to stage a new version of his famous opera Tannhauser. However, the show is a fiasco when riots break out during the performance to protest both Wagner’s break with artistic conventions (a ballet in the first act, instead of the second) and the involvement of one of his patrons, the Austrian Princess Metternich. Episode 5 After the failure in Paris, Wagner travels around Europe to Switzerland, Austria and Russia. He tries staging Tristan & Isolde in Vienna, but is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Minna continues to plead with the Dresden court for amnesty for Richard, which is eventually granted. Wagner returns but is chased away when creditors come looking for him. Destitute, Wagner tries to hide but is eventually found by Mr Pfistermeister, personal secretary to the King of Bavaria who is desperate to meet him. Episode 6 Wagner enjoys a prosperous time under the patronage of the young King of Bavaria. Most of his debts are settled and several of his opera’s are staged to great success. Meanwhile, Wagner has an affair with Cosima, wife of his good friend Hans von Bulow, much to the dismay of Cosima’s father, Franz Liszt. Although Wagner and King Ludwig II have become close friends, the King’s ministers and the people of Bavaria are weary of Wagner. Wagner eventually has a falling out with the King when he asks Ludwig to pay for a portrait of Wagner which is painted as a gift to Ludwig himself. Episode 7 Wagner must reconcile with the King and eventually does so. Their friendship grows even stronger while Ludwig’s minsters becoming increasingly suspicious of Wagner and his ever increasing demands for money. The premiere of Tristan & Isolde has to be postponed when the lead actress falls ill but finally happens a few months later. Ludwig leaves the premiere before the end to travel into the night on board of the royal train. When Bavaria faces external challenges and Wagner’s lifestyle becomes too extravagant for the Bavarian people, Ludwig is finally forced to banish Wagner from his country. Meanwhile, Cosima gives birth to Wagner’s daughter, while Minna dies alone, neglected by Wagner. Episode 8 Wagner moves to Luzern with Cosima and her children. He is later joined by King Ludwig who wishes to abdicate in order to become Wagner’s assistant. Wagner convinces him to return to Bavaria, where war with Prussia erupts. Hans von Bulow eventually also vists them in Luzern, where Cosima asks him for a divorce, which he refuses. When Hans is overly tired by his work for Wagner, he leaves, and Wagner hires Hans Richter as his new assistant. They are visited by Friedrich Nietzsche. Cosima gives birth to Wagner’s son. Episode 9 Wagner and Cosima are overjoyed by the birth of their son, Siegfried. Meanwhile, Germany continues its war with France, which finally realises Wagner’s lifelong dream of a united Germany. Wagner marries Cosima and is ordered by Ludwig to stage his opera Das Rheingold. When Wagner decides to postpone the opera, one day before the premiere, he and Ludwig have a falling out. Wagner is denied access to the theatre and decides to build his own opera house in Bayreuth. Episode 10 Construction on the opera house in Bayreuth begins and his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen can finally be premiered. The performance is attended by Ludwig who is slowly losing his mind, while living in his gigantic new castle Neuschwanstein. Wagner and Nietzsche have a falling out over Wagner’s lifestyle and ideas (including his rampant anti-semitism). Shortly before his death, Wagner and Liszt reflect on Wagner’s life: the people he has known, the events that occurred and the music he composed. |
WagnerMusical genius, political hero and racist demon, the life of Richard
Wagner reads like the ultimate Boys-own story. The Ring cycle is
regarded as one of the finest achievements of the human soul. This
documentary examines the connections between Wagner’s own spiritual
vision and his art, including coded anti-Semitic references in his music
and the techniques he used to mesmerise his audience. It is filmed in Switzerland, Italy and King Ludwig’s Bavaria. Musicians include the world’s greatest and most controversial performers: Daniel Barenboim, Roger Norrington, Siegfried Jerusalem, Deborah Polaski, Graham Clarke, Falk Struckmann with contributions from Wagner experts John Deathridge and Barry Millington as well as Stephen Hawking, George Steiner and Edward Said. Excerpts include The Ring, Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal. Released in 1997. 59 min. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. TV documentary series. |
Genre: Music Category Biography, Music History Theme: Musician's Life Studio: Kultur Run Time: 35 min Language: English Release Date: December 20, 2005 Part of the Famous Composers video series, this documentary tells the story of late 19th century German opera composer Richard Wagner. Combining musical composition with German myths and stories, Wagner is known for some of Germany's most famous operas. He also is recognized for creating a new type of musical form, where music, verse, and production staging are combined in something he called Gesamtkunstwerk. One of Wagner's most famous works is his opera The Ring, but he also wrote Tristan und Isolde and Der Fluegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman), among many others. The famed Elysian Ensemble provides the musical accompaniment for this video. Cecilia Cygnar, Rovi |
Год выпуска: 1972 Страна: Франция, Италия, Германия Жанр: Историческая драма Продолжительность: 228 минут Перевод: Профессиональный (одноголосый, закадровый) Русские субтитры: есть Режиссер: Лукино Висконти, Luchino Visconti В ролях: Хельмут Бергер, Тревор Ховард, Сильвана Монгано, Герт Фробе, Хельмут Грим, Роми Шнайдер, Умберто Орсини, Джон Молдер-Браун, Муг Хайнц, Адриана Асти, Нора Риччи, Марк Бернс, Маурицио Бонулья Описание: Этот фильм об удивительной жизни короля Баварии Людвига II (1845 — 1886), романтика и идеалиста, поклонника красоты и гармонии, мечты которого разбились о жизненные реалии и привели его к трагическому финалу. С юности Людвиг был заворожен романтическим миром героев, легенд и идеальной любви, услышав оперу Вагнера «Лоэнгрин». С момента прихода к власти он всемерно поддерживает творческий гений Вагнера, а сам строит по всей Баварии потрясающие замки. Его неудовлетворенная любовь к австрийской принцессе Елизавете способствует проявлению нездоровых страстей. Предательство ближайших друзей завершает окончательную деградацию короля, окружившего себя развращенными подонками. Его состояние было расценено при дворе как начало прогрессирующего безумия. 9 июня 1886 года Людвиг был отстранен от власти, а 12 июня он вышел на прогулку, с которой не вернулся… |
Автор сценария: Reinhold Jaretzky Оператор: Andre Meier Режисер: Kai-Uwe Schulenburg фильм озвучен на русский язык |