Cardillac is a drama movie that showcases live performances of opera. It explores the intricacies of the opera genre through captivating storytelling and breathtaking musical performances.

Adaptation of "Der Prinz von Homburg"; recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.

Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen), is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal technical conditions made possible by a closed session. Alden, one of the most iconoclastic interpreters of classical opera, stirs up the visionary, erotic, and archetypal elements in Wagner's work. The cold, forbidding aspect of the stylized and predominantly monochrome sets and costumes by Roni Toren and Buki Shiff manifests the strait-jacket of tradition from which Tannhäuser seeks to free himself in this powerful opera.