Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival. In this production by the distinguished film director, John Schlesinger, with spectacular designs by Maria Bjo...

Karl Richter conducts Peter Schreier, Ernst Gerold Schramm, Siegmund Nimsgern, Helen Donath, Julia Hamari, Horst R. Laubenthal, Walter Berry, and Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra in 1971.

A groundbreaking production of Verdi's masterpiece and its first video recording. Recorded live in Florence in 1977.

Reveals the life and current (1978) muses of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan.

Karl Richter conducts Bach's Johannes-Passion with the Muenchner Bach Chor & Orchestra.

Opera written by inmates of a Nazi concentration camp in 1943 before their murder in Auschwitz.