Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies

Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical...

Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther...

Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s...

The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with...

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert....

1989 recording of the San Francisco Opera production of Mefistofele: Boito's retelling of Goethe's Faust

Forbidden love, wrongdoings and anguish: the Opernhaus Zürich ventures into late nineteenth-century French romanticism with Werther by Jules...

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

Alain Guingal conducts the Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino in this production of Massenet's opera based on the novel 'The Sorrows of Young...

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

Werther, a young German in love with poetry, is given the chance to get out of his alienating everyday life by his employment as a tutor in a rich...

Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

The soundtrack is taken from "Schubert Year by Year", released on Stone Records in preparation for the 2014 Oxford Lieder Festival, "The Schubert...

While cycling through a dark forest at night, a young boy is visited by der Erlkönig, a harbinger of death. He asks for his father to save him...