Philippe Jordan

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023 (2023)

After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Kr ...

Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Wiener Staatsoper Live) (2021)

Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro performed live (and streamed) on the February 4, 2021. ...

Jarrell: Bérénice (2018)

Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they try yet refuse to understand each other. Taking up the "majestic sadness" of these alexandrines, among the greatest verses in the French language, Michael Jar ...

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 ...

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. ...

Benvenuto Cellini (2018)

The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably embroiled in conspiracies, intrigues and quarrels, Cellini is commissioned by the Pope to cast a large sculptur ...

Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's Don Carlos (2017)

Set in 16th-century France and Spain, Don Carlos tells of the political and amorous rivalry between King Philip II and his son, Don Carlos, over Elisabeth de Valois. Krzysztof Warlikowski strips down a tragedy haunted by ghosts, and places the intimate at ...

Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (2017)

Prompted by Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, two young idealists decide to put their lovers' fidelity to the test. But love will teach them a bitter lesson: those who believe themselves phoenixes and goddesses will discover the desires of the flesh� ...

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (2016)

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe's Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen's spectacular production highlights the ...

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (2016)

Lightning streaks through the skies as Dalila declares her love to Samson in one of the finest arias of romantic opera. "My heart awakens to your voice like a flower to the kiss of dawn." An enchanting yet treacherous beauty… When the thunder at last rum ...

Beethoven - Complete symphonies (2016)

Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron (2015)

Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the P ...

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies - Philippe Jordan (2015)

Wagnerwahn (2013)

Wagnerwahn is a documentary in a style of a thriller. ...

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012)

Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When Prince Golaud, grandson of King of Allemonde, meets the beautiful Mélisande, he knows nothing about her. T ...

Le Nozze di Figaro (2010)

Tannhäuser (2009)

Doktor Faust (2006)

Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning - is given a book on black magic from three mysterious students from Cracow. When Mephistopheles appears and proposes a pact with Faust, the two of them set ...

Werther (2005)

The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan – the Argentinian tenor Marcelo Álvarez, took the title role. His Charlotte on this occasion was the young Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča. Her performan ...

Georges Bizet: Carmen (2004)

Carmen (2002)

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, an ...

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth - Salzburger Festspiele 2023 (2023)

After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Kr ...

Don Giovanni - Palais Garnier - from June 8 to July 13, 2019 (2019)

What is this flame that compels Don Giovanni to seduce, subjugate and conquer women one after the other, with the fervour and cold indifference of a predator securing his prey; to pursue through his conquests some obscure and ever‑elusive objective? For ...

Don Pasquale - Palais Garnier (2018)

"Foolish indeed is he who marries in old age." Thus ends Don Pasquale: with a wise dictum not lacking in irony that sums up the disappointments of its hero, a rich bachelor keen to marry who is deceived by his nephew Ernesto and his young bride-to-be Norin ...

Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016 (2016)

Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron (2015)

Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the P ...

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 ...

Carmen (2002)

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role, restores the Opera Comique to Bizet's masterpiece. Philippe Jordan, in his Glyndebourne debut, conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Chorus, an ...