Ulrich Reß

Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper (2022)

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil. ...

Janáček: From the House of the Dead (2018)

Stage director Frank Castorf "might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead" (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking adaptation brings bold modern and postmodern touches to Janáček's masterwork without ever overshadowing the intense forw ...

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg (2017)

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (2017)

Recorded at Bayerische Staatsoper on March 3-9, 2016. ...

Puccini Manon Lescaut (2015)

The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury. ...

Hoffmanns Erzählungen (2011)

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach that combines three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann into a haunting whole: a melancholy poet reflects on t ...

Rusalka - Bayerische Staatsoper (2010)

Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka's lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with her sisters by her abusive father. But once she finally escapes, she is thrown mute and alone into an equally brutal world where she is utterl ...

Dialogues des Carmelites (2010)

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions like Eugene Onegin and Macbeth at the Paris Opera and Don Giovanni at Aix-en- Provence. The superb internat ...

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 ...

Mussorgsky: Khovanschina (2007)

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music. Kent Nagano rises magnificently to the challenges presented by this score. And Dmitri Tcherniakov's fascinati ...

Tristan und Isolde (1998)

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Ope ...

The Flying Dutchman (1992)

Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera. ...