Andreas Schager

Tristan und Isolde (2024)

Production Bayreuth 2024. There is no arrival in Tristan and Isolde, only the longing for the unattainable, for the place "where the end of deception promised me my heart". Two people who strive to fall out of the roles ascribed to them, to escape the supp ...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 - Leipzig, Paris, Mailand, Wien (2024)

Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly, and Petr Popelka will take turns conducting the four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This concert event celebrates the bicentennial of the premiere of Beethoven's masterpiece. ...

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

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 Tcherniakov's daring staging and Christian Thielemann's virtuoso musical direction. ...

Richard Wagner: "Parsifal" Bayreuther Festspiele 2023 (2023)

The Bayreuth Festival 2023 will open with the premiere of Wagner's "Parsifal". Jay Scheib is directing, and Pablo Heras-Casado is the musical director. ...

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2018)

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner's composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars' production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost dematerialised ...

Der Freischütz - Wiener Staatsoper (2018)

The young composer Max is due to marry Agathe, but before his wedding he must finish his opera on which he has been working for quite some time. Despite all his efforts, Max is plagued by worries that he will fail to complete the piece and so makes almost ...

Tristan Und Isolde (2016)

Parsifal (2016)

Wagner's mystic masterpiece Parsifal at the Staatsoper Berlin, staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Wagner's last opera, Parsifal is a medieval epic story marked by Christian, Buddhist and esoteric references. It is about redemp ...