Matti Salminen

Born: 1945-07-07


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Wagner: Das Rheingold

as Fasolt
Released: 1980-08-12

This is a beautifully conducted and thoughtfully staged performance of the first opera (the...

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Tristan und Isolde

as König Marke
Released: 1983-10-01

Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for...

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The Flying Dutchman

as Daland
Released: 1989-01-01

lkka Backman's celebrated rendition of Wagner's opera tells the story of The Flying Dutchman, a...

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Verdi: Don Carlo

as Filippo II
Released: 2013-08-31

Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then...

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Fanatics

as Pauli
Released: 2012-02-24

A buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect...

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Wagner: Die Walküre

as Hunding
Released: 1980-08-12

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die...

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Der fliegende Holländer

as Daland
Released: 1985-01-01

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Tristan und Isolde

as König Marke
Released: 2007-12-07

The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, Queen Margot, Intimacy) directed this...

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Das Rheingold

as Fafner
Released: 1990-04-23

From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow...

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Wagner: Die Walküre

as Hunding
Released: 2010-10-11

It has been a long time since the events of Das Rheingold. Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries,...

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Wagner: Das Rheingold

as Fasolt
Released: 2009-11-16

In the words of the prestigious German weekly 'Die Zeit,' the stage production of Wagner's...

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Parsifal's Progress

as Self / Gurnemanz
Released: 2005-01-01

A documentary about Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 production of Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, at the...

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Wagner: Parsifal

as Titurel
Released: 2007-01-01

Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth production of his grandfather's 'farewell to the world'has 'an...

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung

as Hagen
Released: 2010-10-11

Richard Wagner's dream of a Gesamkuntswerk becomes reality through La Fura dels Baus' visual...

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Boris Godunov

as Boris Godunov
Released: 2004-01-01

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the...

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Götterdämmerung

as Hagen
Released: 1990-05-05

The stupendous climax to Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle is brilliantly realized by the Otto...

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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

as uncredited
Released: 1998-07-08

Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a...

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The Met - Tristan und Isolde

as King Marke
Released: 2008-03-22

James Levine’s love for this monumental opera shimmers throughout this exciting performance. It...

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Aida

as Ramfis (bass)
Released: 2006-05-01

The Zurich Opera presents a stunning new production of Verdi’s most popular, most spectacular...

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Aida

as Ramfis
Released: 2015-10-30

Any performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida at La Scala, Milan, is guaranteed to be an experience –...

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Wagner - Götterdämmerung

as Hagen
Released: 2005-08-16

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths...

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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

as Il Commendatore
Released: 2001-12-01

Live 2001 production from the Zurich Opera House of the classic Mozart/Da Ponte opera, with...

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Siegfried

as Fafner
Released: 1990-02-23

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of...

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Don Carlo

as El Gran Inquisidor
Released: 1986-01-01

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

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Parsifal

as Gurnemanz
Released: 2005-03-19

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor....

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L'Incoronazione di Poppea

as Seneca
Released: 1979-12-01

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt...

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Die Zauberflöte

as Sarastro
Released: 2001-01-01

This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris...

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Die Zauberflöte

as Sarastro
Released: 2000-05-04

Live production of the Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte.

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Fidelio

as Rocco
Released: 2006-10-21

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose...

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