Philip Langridge

Lulu (2009)

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

The Minotaur (2008)

This staging of Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur features John Tomlinson, Johann Reuter, Christine Rice, and Andrew Watts in the main roles. Stephen Langridge directed the production for the stage, and Antonio Pappano conducted the orchestra. ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (2008)

This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all ages, was part of the Met's popular English-language holiday series. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer star as the famous siblings lost in the woods, who ba ...

Mozart - Idomeneo (2004)

Recorded live at The Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Idomeneo, King of Crete, has been away from home during the long years of the Trojan War. Idamante, his son and now regent of the island, waits for his return, heralded by the arrival in Crete of Trojan pr ...

Boris Godunov (2004)

The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous "romantic tragedy" by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky's masterpiece and his only complete opera. It's a vast sprawling tapestry o ...

Boris Godunov (1998)

Billy Budd (1997)

John Dexter's brilliant production of Britten's searing opera stars Dwayne Croft in the title role of the handsome young sailor whose kindness and innocence cause his downfall. The great James Morris is Claggart, master-at-arms on the 18th-century warship ...

Peter Grimes (1994)

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role. ...

Oedipus Rex (1993)

Impressed by Jean Cocteau's rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles's tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, a ...

La Clemenza Di Tito (1991)

Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791. This rarely-seen masterpiece was Mozart's last opera. Nicholas Hytner's elegant staging for the Glyndebourne Festiva ...

Jenufa (1989)

The embittered widow, Kostelnicka, drowns her infant grandson to save her beloved stepdaughter Jenufa from the shame and hardship of raising an illegitimate child. ...

Wozzeck (1987)

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle migh ...

Idomeneo (1983)

Live from Glyndebourne 1983 ...