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Edita Gruberová, prima donna assoluta of the bel canto community, is the most famous bel canto soprano in the world today. The film accompanies the soprano for a year and a half and narrates in flashbacks the most important stages of her long stage career, from her native Bratislava to Vienna, Munich and Zurich.

Edita Gruberová turned the bel canto style - as exemplified primarily by the early 19th-century operas of Bellini and Donizetti - into her own, unmistakable specialty. In addition to rehearsal excerpts from "Lucrezia Borgia," the film shows Gruberova in the title role of "Norma" and as Elisabetta in "Roberto Devereux". Archival recordings allow us to admire her in "Rigoletto" with Luciano Pavarotti, the legendary "Ariadne auf Naxos" under Karl Böhm, and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film adaptation of "Così fan tutte" under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Interviews with important fellow artists and companions such as Harnoncourt, Brigitte Fassbaender and Elina Garanca round off this mesmerizing portrait.

Details

  • Production Year:

    2008

  • Category:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    biographical
  • Age rating:

    0+

  • Audio Language:

    no linguistic content

  • Subtitle Language:

    no subtitles

  • Country:

    Germany

Besetzung

Gallery

Recommendations

1983, Bayerische Staatsoper

Mozart, The Magic Flute

  • Wolfgang Sawallisch

  • August Everding

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Kurt Moll, Edita Gruberová, Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp

1978, Opera film

Strauss, Ariadne on Naxos

  • Karl Böhm

  • Filippo Sanjust

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Trudeliese Schmidt, Walter Berry

2009, Bavarian State Opera

Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia

  • Bertrand De Billy

  • Christof Loy

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Edita Gruberová, Pavol Breslik, Cosimo Vassallo, Alice Coote

2006

Musically-Culinary: Verdi and the Emilia Romagna

  • Giuseppe Verdi

2014

Nali Gruber – Not just Frankenstein

  • Heinz Karl Gruber

2013

Places of Childhood: Angelika Kirchschlager

  • Angelika Kirchschlager

  • Peter Schneeberger

  • Ute Gebhardt

2018

Leonard Bernstein - A Genius Divided

  • Leonard Bernstein, John Mauceri

  • Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler

  • Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

  • Christa Ludwig, Frederica von Stade, José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa

1985, Festspielhaus Bregenz

Bellini, I puritani

  • Gianfranco Masini

  • Wiener Symphoniker

  • Carlo del Bosco, Dimitri Kavrakos, Salvatore Fisichella

1977, Opera film

Strauss, Arabella

  • Sir Georg Solti

  • Otto Schenk

  • Wiener Philharmoniker

  • Hans Kraemmer, Gundula Janowitz, Sona Ghazarian, Bernd Weikl

Edita Gruberová

  • Edita Gruberová

1988, Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Mozart, Don Giovanni

  • Riccardo Muti

  • Giorgio Strehler

  • Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano

  • Thomas Allen, Sergej Kopčák, Edita Gruberová, Francisco Araiza

2006, Bayerische Staatsoper

Bellini, Norma

  • Friedrich Haider

  • Jürgen Rose

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester

  • Edita Gruberová, Sonia Ganassi, Zoran Todorovich

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