Michael Volle

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle (2024)

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: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Having paid the giants for building Valhalla with the ring stolen from Alberich, Wotan is determined to get it back. For if he fell ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff (2023)

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi's glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast ...

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2022)

A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner's Ring tetralogy. This epic production of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden sees a remarkable collaboration between Christian Thielemann, one of the most distingu ...

The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love (2021)

Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music. ...

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)

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 an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from t ...

Verdi: Nabucco (2019)

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

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele (2018)

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky's astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer. ...

Verdi: Falstaff (2018)

Falstaff is Verdi's masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor's. In this performance stage and film direct ...

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival) (2015)

Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan Herheims new production, devised by the director as a search for ones own self in a sparkling drag show. A shinin ...

Berg: Lulu (2015)

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 and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death ...

The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (2014)

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner's epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk's classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian tenor Jo ...

Guillaume Tell (2014)

Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú Romero Nunes, opens this year's Munich Opera Festival with an orgy of fabulous singing. ...

Les Vêpres siciliennes (2013)

The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She turns to the partisan Jean Procida and the rebellious patriot Henri in her bid for vengeance. Les Vêpres siciliennes is ...

Beethoven · Die Symphonien (2013)

Alban Berg: Lulu (2012)

Vera Nemirova's challenging production of Berg's operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2010. It was successfully repeated in 2011, when the production was filmed for DVD. Supporting Nemirova's powerful v ...

Hunter's Bride (2010)

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie for the heart of the same woman. ...

Gurrelieder (2009)

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

Pfitzner: Palestrina (2009)

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 premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera met t ...

Lulu (2009)

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

Royal Opera House: Salomé (2008)

David McVicar's powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched palace, which has s ...

Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich (2008)

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production from the Zurich Opera, recorded on this DVD, Christoph von Dohnányi leads a particularly strong c ...

Fierrabras (2007)

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 love between Eginhard and Emma. Live performance from 2007 at the Opernhaus Zürich. ...

Pelléas et Mélisande (2004)

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 the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered i ...

Johann Strauss: Simplicius (2003)

Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien. Neither an opera nor an operetta, it was a work that did not fit into any of the pre-defined categories. On ...

Beatrice di Tenda (2002)

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002. ...