Matti Salminen

AKA:
0.0168

1945-07-07

Turku, Finland

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {33}

Fasolt

1980-08-12 6.4

Wagner: Das Rheingold

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the prologue) in Wagner's Ring Cycle. As soon as the clouds of mist have dissipated, while the daring, long-held ...
Genre :Music

Self / Gurnemanz

2005-01-01 0

Parsifal's Progress

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and clips of the live performances pro ...
Genre :Documentary

Fafner

1990-04-23 7.2

Das Rheingold

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening Valhalla, Otto Schenk’s production captures the sc ...
Genre :Fantasy, Music

Hunding

1980-08-12 6.7

Wagner: Die Walküre

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetration. This production of " Die Walkure," staged as pa ...
Genre :Music

Il Commendatore

2001-12-01 10

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting and directed for television and video by Brian Large. ...
Genre :Music

Self(Commandatore)

1996-01-30 10

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau’s third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Sarastro

2000-05-04 0

Die Zauberflöte

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte. ...
Genre :

Kaspar

1999-03-01 0

Der Freischütz

The legendary director Ruth Berghaus created this staging of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz as a gripping theatrical experience for the Zurich Opera in 1993. Its revival in 1999 was a roaring s ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Daland

1985-01-01 8.2

Der fliegende Holländer

Genre :Music

Daland

1989-01-01 7.2

The Flying Dutchman

lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a skipper who's been banished to sea for all eternity. Staged in a large outdoor courtyard inside Finland' ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Drama

Seneca

1979-12-01 0

L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ...
Genre :Music

Hagen

2005-08-16 0

Wagner - Götterdämmerung

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortunately, Kupfer's interpretation places Brünnhilde and Hagen at its center and the singers ...
Genre :Music

Filippo II

2013-08-31 0

Verdi: Don Carlo

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three versions of this opera, the French 1867 version, the revised Italian four Act Don Carlo ...
Genre :Music

König Marke

2007-12-07 0

Tristan und Isolde

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this production of Richard Wagner's psychological music drama Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro alla Scala in 2 ...
Genre :Music

Fasolt

2009-11-16 0

Wagner: Das Rheingold

In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's 'Rheingold' and 'Walküre' by La Fura dels Baus 'quite possibly shows us the path that musical theater will be ...
Genre :Music

Hunding

2010-10-11 0

Wagner: Die Walküre

It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, warrior women who bring dead heroes to Valhalla (the castle of the Gods). Richard Wagner's dream of a Ges ...
Genre :Music

Hagen

2010-10-11 0

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual fantasy and blending of video technology, lighting and props (often formed of human beings): Their 30 compu ...
Genre :Music

1998-07-08 0

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records performances held in Bayreuth, St. Petersburg, and Ravello, ...
Genre :Music

Hagen

1990-05-05 8

Götterdämmerung

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production and byJames Levine’s monumental conducting. The Met orchestra, c ...
Genre :Music

Fafner

1990-02-23 7.5

Siegfried

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ...
Genre :Music

Gurnemanz

2005-03-19 0

Parsifal

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhoff, stage director. ...
Genre :Music

Rocco

2006-10-21 0

Fidelio

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the pri ...
Genre :

Ramfis (bass)

2006-05-01 0

Aida

The Zurich Opera presents a stunning new production of Verdi’s most popular, most spectacular work. Responding superbly to the role, Swedish soprano Nina Stemme – she of the richly clear voice – offe ...
Genre :Music

King Marke

2008-03-22 0

The Met - Tristan und Isolde

James Levine’s love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It was an afternoon to remember: Met favorite Deborah Voigt singing her first run as the proud Irish prince ...
Genre :Music

Ramfis

2015-10-30 0

Aida

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience – but, when it’s a new production, it becomes a major event, especially given the theatre’s notoriously c ...
Genre :Music, Drama

El Gran Inquisidor

1986-01-01 0

Don Carlo

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera. ...
Genre :Music

Boris Godunov

2004-01-01 0

Boris Godunov

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky’s masterpiece and h ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

König Marke

1983-10-01 6

Tristan und Isolde

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for eternity. The 1983 performance in Bayreuth was a great moment for the world of opera. The ensemble perf ...
Genre :Music

Titurel

2007-01-01 0

Wagner: Parsifal

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an unusual beauty and logic of its own ... with a double stress - on nature undefiled and on a form of religious ...
Genre :Music

Sarastro

2001-01-01 0

Die Zauberflöte

This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris in 2001, was directed especially for TV and video. Some of the vocalists featured in the leading roles i ...
Genre :

Pauli

2012-02-24 5.667

Fanatics

A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect girl, only to notice that his dream-girl supports the wrong football team. Now he has to befriend the enem ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Filippo II

2013-01-01 0

Verdi - Don Carlo

Genre :Drama, Music

Self

2006-01-12 0

Semperopernball

Genre :Reality