Daniel Schmid

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

A naive girl’s love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always ...

Acclaimed soprano Edita Gruberova stars as the title character in this 1996 production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Linda di ...

In Japanese theater, women’s roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman’s role, the Onnagata, does not imitate ...

Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years ...

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the ...

“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid) This is ...

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who ...

When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next one. But Barbe-Bleue falls in love with Hermia ...

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, ...

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk.

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized ...