Michael Volle

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Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell

Klein gegen Groß – Das unglaubliche Duell is a family game show that has been broadcast on the first channel si...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

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

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, recorded a...

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

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

Hunter's Bride

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

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala

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

Royal Opera House: Salomé

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

Guillaume Tell

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

Berg: Lulu

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

Lulu

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

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

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

Beethoven · Die Symphonien

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner'...

Les Vêpres siciliennes

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

Haydn: Die Schopfung

Inspired by hearing performances of Handel's oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Schöpfun...

The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love

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

Verdi: Falstaff

Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devio...

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter...

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle

Beatrice di Tenda

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meis...

Gurrelieder

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

Verdi: Nabucco

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

Fierrabras

Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and based on La Cha...

Pfitzner: Palestrina

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stag...

Pelléas et Mélisande

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

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)

Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtf...

Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo...

Alban Berg: Lulu

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

Die Gezeichneten

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

Wagner: Siegfried

Johann Strauss: Simplicius

Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simp...

Wagner: Die Walküre