Movies: Anette Tirier

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer....

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital....

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972....

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras. As Schroeter would recall, "I arranged the Verdi music for a quartet of violin, a...