Esa-Pekka Salonen Movies
- 2022
The Wait
The Wait5.8332022HD
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend...
- 2022
Playing with Gods
Playing with Gods02022HD
The documentary dives intimately behind the scenes of the Finnish National Opera and sucks the viewer in like the best of thrillers. The three hours...
- 1993
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask01993HD
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.
- 1992
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen01992HD
In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The...
- 2016
Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence
Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence02016HD
- 2004
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin02004HD
This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
- 2018
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle02018HD
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...
- 2022
Résurrection
Résurrection02022HD
Resurrection forms a diptych with Requiem (2019) – a striking meditation on the exhaustion and disappearance of all things – and takes up...
- 2014
Orango
Orango02014HD
"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...
- 2004
The Tristan Project
The Tristan Project02004HD
A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in...
- 1995
Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda
Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda01995HD
Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central...
- 2013
Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra
Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra02013HD
Universe of Sound has won the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement. The award recognizes an outstanding initiative by...