Joachim Hess Movies

Director Rolf Liebermann’s 1968 filmed-for-TV production of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, with the Hamburg State Opera performing an...

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates...

A fairground in a small town in northern Germany: a young woman named Margret Winter enjoys herself there with a friend. She has 900 D-Mark in her...

Wagner's communal drama on film.

Film version of Richard Strauss's one-act opera, Elektra.

Alban Berg's disturbing opera masterfully translated into film.

A tsar and a carpenter switch places amid great laughs and endearing love.

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in...