Mika Kares

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

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 ...

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 Fiery Angel (2022)

The production by Calixto Bieito extracts all the potential from this work in a most convincing and spine-chilling way. The action takes place in a closed society of the 1950s, taking this story of witchcraft, sex and religion to the realism of imitation l ...

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2021)

Premiered in 1787, "Don Giovanni" exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial lover in his quest to conquer all women as he places his own pleasure above all other princip ...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2018)

The ambiguities of Verdi's theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently p ...

Handel: Agrippina (2018)

Opera by George Frideric Handel filmed on March 29, 2016 at the Theater in Vienna, Austria. ...

Royal Opera House: The Magic Flute (2017)

Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro. He begins his quest, accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno – but all is not as it seems… Tamino and Papageno discover Sarastro is a w ...

Donizetti - La Favorite (2015)

Donizetti's French masterpiece was in the hands of Italian conductor Antonello Allemandi. This maestro, a bel canto specialist, captured the fire and intensity of the passions from the get-go, making the overture a superbly eloquent transition to a musical ...