Michael Volle

Performance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, 26 July 2005

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Cast: Robert Hale

Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophie Auster

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franz Grundheber

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hera Hyesang Park

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise...

Genre: Music

Cast: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner’s Ring tetralogy. This epic production of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Johannes Martin Kränzle

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage. In Munich, the city in which it was...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christopher Ventris

Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner's tetralogy, served up by Dmitri...

Genre: Music

Cast: Andreas Schager

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Cast: Anja Kampe

New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.

Genre: Music

Cast: Agneta Eichenholz

Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú Romero Nunes, opens this...

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Volle

Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde –...

Genre: Music

Cast: Nadja Michael

The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lianna Haroutounian

This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Franz Hawlata

Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on...

Genre: Music

Cast: Franz Welser-Möst

Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan...

Genre: Music

Cast: Daniel Johansson

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

Genre: Music

Cast: Edita Gruberova

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Cast: Anja Kampe

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars...

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Cast: Michael Volle

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Cast: Mariss Jansons

Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Chanson de Roland and the legend of the...

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Cast: László Polgár

Performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons

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Cast: Deborah Voigt

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a...

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Cast: Michael Volle

Vera Nemirova’s challenging production of Berg’s operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when first seen at the Salzburg Festival...

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Cast: Patricia Petitbon

In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ildar Abdrazakov

Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Michael Volle

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling...

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Cast: Emily Magee

Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien....

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Cast: Michael Volle

A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.

Genre: Music

Cast: Benjamin Bernheim