Esa-Pekka Salonen Movies

  • 2022
    The Wait

    The Wait

    The Wait

    5.8332022HD

    The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend...

    The Wait
  • 2022
    Playing with Gods

    Playing with Gods

    Playing with Gods

    02022HD

    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...

    Playing with Gods
  • 1993
    Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask

    Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask

    Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask

    01993HD

    Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.

    Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
  • 1992
    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen

    01992HD

    In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The...

    Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
  • 2016
    Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence

    Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence

    Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence

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    Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence
  • 2004
    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin

    02004HD

    This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

    Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
  • 2018
    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    02018HD

    Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
  • 2022
    Résurrection

    Résurrection

    Résurrection

    02022HD

    Resurrection forms a diptych with Requiem (2019) – a striking meditation on the exhaustion and disappearance of all things – and takes up...

    Résurrection
  • 2014
    Orango

    Orango

    Orango

    02014HD

    "Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...

    Orango
  • 2004
    The Tristan Project

    The Tristan Project

    The Tristan Project

    02004HD

    A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in...

    The Tristan Project
  • 1995
    Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda

    Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda

    Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda

    01995HD

    Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central...

    Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda
  • 2013
    Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra

    Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra

    Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra

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    Universe of Sound has won the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement. The award recognizes an outstanding initiative by...

    Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra