Michael Volle
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love
as uncreditedRichard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her...
Movie pageVerdi: Nabucco
as NabuccoA staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.
Movie pageGuillaume Tell
as Guillaume TellLive from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage...
Movie pageLes Vêpres siciliennes
as Guy de MontfortThe French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor,...
Movie pageHunter's Bride
as KasparInspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the...
Movie pageDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
as uncreditedThe high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and...
Movie pageLulu
as Dr. Schön, Jack the RipperNew peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.
Movie pageRichard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
as Der WandererSiegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third...
Movie pageMetropolitan Opera At Home Gala
as SelfIn its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere...
Movie pageOffenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)
as Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/DapertuttoBregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times...
Movie pageRichard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
as WotanA myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner’s...
Movie pageJohann Strauss: Simplicius
as uncreditedOperetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II...
Movie pageDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg
as Sixtus BeckmesserThis program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von...
Movie pageRichard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
as WotanSalomé
as JokanaanLive from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera –...
Movie pageVerdi: Falstaff
as FalstaffFalstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John...
Movie pageThe Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
as Sir John FalstaffBaritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of...
Movie pageThe Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
as Hans SachsJames Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic...
Movie pageBeatrice di Tenda
as Filippo Maria ViscontiLive performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
Movie pageAriadne auf Naxos - Zurich
as uncreditedAriadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his...
Movie pageBerg: Lulu
as Dr. SchönA performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark...
Movie pageGurrelieder
as PeasantPerformance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons
Movie pagePfitzner: Palestrina
as Giovanni MoroneRequiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a...
Movie pagePelléas et Mélisande
as GolaudClaude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a...
Movie pageDie Gezeichneten
as Count Andrea Vitelozzo TamarePerformance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the...
Movie pageFierrabras
as RolandSchubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and...
Movie pageAlban Berg: Lulu
as Dr Schön, Editor-in-chief / Jack the RipperVera Nemirova’s challenging production of Berg’s operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim...
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