Movies by Gustavo Dudamel

Music by John Williams
From his early days as a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar nominations and five wins, this documentary celebrates Williams’ countless contributions to the moving image arts, music for the concert stage, as well as his indelible impact on popular culture.

Waldbühne 2017 | Legends of the Rhine
For their annual season end concert, the Berliner Philharmoniker take the audience on a dreamy, magically journey through the river Rhine with Schumann’s beloved 3rd Symphony Rhenish. Pieces from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen under the baton of dynamic conductor Gustavo Dudamel complete this evening.

Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection (Gustavo Dudamel)
Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana, one of the world’s most beautiful concert halls, hosted Gustavo Dudamel and the Münchner Philharmoniker with an unforgettable performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “The Resurrection”. The composer emphasizes life and death in all its terrible and stunning splendour in this overwhelming opus: “There is nothing except the complete substance of my whole life”, he remarked on his all-embracing oeuvre. Gustavo Dudamel, who said it was “a privilege to conduct this work in this unique venue”, and his ensemb...
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Guaco: Semblanza
Dcumentary directed by Alberto Arvelo, which is a record for the posterity of as the first five decades of the career as the projection into the future of "La Super Banda de Venezuela". It is related from the present with interesting testimonies and electrifying performances in concert.
The Promise of Music
Film featuring Simón Bolivar Orquesta Sinfónica, Gustavo Dudamel and Felix Mendoza

John Adams: Nixon in China
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑American relations. John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, begun by the invitation of the American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential ...

Europakonzert 2012 from Vienna
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B flat Major, Op. 56a Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in C Major Hob. VIIb: 1: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Cecilia Bartoli & Friends
Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. With interviews from her illustrious friends and colleagues from the world of classical music: Daniel Barenboim, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel and more.

Tango under the Stars - Gustavo Dudamel

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 2010
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 2010 concert was conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and featured Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano). On the programme: Hector Berlioz: La Carnaval romain, Op. 9; La Damnation de Faust “D’amour l’ardente flamme”, Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Excerp...

The Making of Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
Go behind the scenes of "Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles."

A John Williams Celebration
For the 2014/15 Opening Night Concert and Gala, the Los Angeles Philharmonic paid loving tribute to composer John Williams, long a champion and close friend of the LA Phil. Gustavo Dudamel, an awestruck fan of the musical icon, led the orchestra in a crosssection of Maestro Williams' matchless canon. Featuring Itzhak Perlman with a very special musical performance of pieces from Schindler's List as well as the Cadenza and variations from Fiddler on the Roof. Jazz elements will fill the air during Escapades from Catch Me if You Can, and may t...

Puccini: La Bohème
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devo...