NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2023
Joonas Saartamo as Richard Wagner and Sophie Auster as Mathilde Wesendonck © Syquali Crossmedia AG
The Zurich Affair Wagner’s One and Only Love A film by Jens Neubert Music by Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt Original Music by Torsten Rasch Sophie Auster, Rüdiger Hauffe, Julienne Pfeil, Joonas Saartamo, Actors Andreas Haefliger, Hiroko Imai, Annika Treutler, Pianos London Symphony Orchestra Eckehard Stier, Conductor • Jens Neubert, Film director An exile from his native land following the failed revolution of 1848, the impoverished Richard Wagner is in Zurich working on his opera Tristan und Isolde . There he meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, ardent admirers of his music. Wagner’s passionate and scandalous affair with Mathilde, whose poems he set to music, is explored in this feature film by director Jens Neubert. After their relationship ended, Wagner left Zurich for Italy, forever remembering Mathilde as ‘my first and only love’.
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2.110758 Picture format: NTSC 16:9 / 2.35:1 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 Language: English, Swiss German Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release Date: 14 Jul 2023
EXTRA FEATURE An introduction to the film The Zurich Affair with Michael Volle. Key Features: • Joonas Saartamo stars as Wagner and is one of Finland’s best-known and most respected actors and won his first Jussi-Award (The Finnish Oscar) for Best Actor for his outstanding performance as the lead in Sakari Kirjavainen’s feature The Silence in 2012. • Sophie Auster is an admired singer. In 2016 Sophie was a grand prize recipient in The John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song Little Bird . In October 2017, she won the Cosmopolitan singer of the year award in Spain and has toured Europe and America with her most recent album Next Time . The lead single, Mexico , will be featured in the upcoming John Turturro film The Jesus Rolls . • In 2010, Jens Neubert directed Hunter’s Bride , a film-opera based on the opera Der Freischütz , which was invited to several festivals including Vancouver, São Paulo, and was nominated for the Montreal World Film Festival – World Greatest Films. • German baritone Michael Volle sings on the soundtrack; he is one of the leading interpreters of German repertoire, singing at the Met in New York, the Berlin State Opera and at other major theatres, and was Singer of the Year, awarded by the magazine Opernwelt (2008 and 2014).
Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0170V Picture format: HD 16:9 / 2.35:1 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 Language: English, Swiss German Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean Region: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 25) Release Date: 14 Jul 2023
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