Michael Volle Movies
- 2008
Salomé
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Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde –...
- 2010
Hunter's Bride
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Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...
- 2002
Beatrice di Tenda
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Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
- 2022
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin02022HD
A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner’s Ring tetralogy. This epic production of...
- 2008
Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich
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Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling...
- 2013
Les Vêpres siciliennes
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The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She...
- 2008
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg02008HD
This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany,...
- 2007
Fierrabras
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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...
- 1970
Verdi: Nabucco
Verdi: Nabucco01970HD
A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.
- 2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
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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...
- 2021
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love02021HD
Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate...
- 2004
Pelléas et Mélisande
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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...
- 1970
Die Gezeichneten
Die Gezeichneten01970HD
Performance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, 26 July 2005
- 2014
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg02014HD
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars...
- 2015
Berg: Lulu
Berg: Lulu02015HD
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...
- 2023
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin02023HD
- 2023
Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin02023HD
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...
- 2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff42023HD
Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in...
- 2024
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle02024HD
- 2003
Johann Strauss: Simplicius
Johann Strauss: Simplicius02003HD
Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien....