Esa-Pekka Salonen
Know for: Acting
Born: 1958-06-30
Place of birth: Helsinki, Finland
Also know as:
Playing with Gods (2022)
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...
The Makropulos Affair (2011)
The Christoph Marthaler production of Leoš Janáček's "Věc Makropulos", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele on 8 &...
Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda (1995)
Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central...
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask (1993)
Documentary about the state of the conducting world in the 1990s. Broadcast as part of the BBC OMNIBUS strand of documentaries.
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen (1992)
In 1992, Olivier Messiaen's epic opera "Saint François d'Assise" was brought to the Salzburg Festival in a staging by Peter Sellars. The...
Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence (2016)
Covid Fan Tutte (2020)
Autumn season at the opera opens with Covid fan tutte, starring leading Finnish soloists The first opera in the autumn repertoire will be Covid fan...
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin (2004)
This is the 2004 version of Kaija Saariaho's opera performed by the Finnish National Opera and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
From the House of the Dead (2017)
Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš...
Orango (2014)
"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...
Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra (2013)
Universe of Sound has won the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement. The award recognizes an outstanding initiative by...
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (2018)
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...
Strauss: Elektra (2016)
The great singing actress Nina Stemme gives a heart-wrenching performance in the title role of Strauss’s blazing one-act drama, adapted from...
The Tristan Project (2004)
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 Wait (2022)
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend...
Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda (1995)
Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central...
Résurrection (2022)
Resurrection forms a diptych with Requiem (2019) – a striking meditation on the exhaustion and disappearance of all things – and takes up...
The Wait (2022)
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend...
The Makropulos Affair (2011)
The Christoph Marthaler production of Leoš Janáček's "Věc Makropulos", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele on 8 &...