Michael Volle

3.0 MovieDavid 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...

Royal Opera House: Salomé

2008

6.5 MovieInspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the Napoleonic Wars who each vie...

Hunter's Bride

2010

4.0 MovieBaritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious...

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

2023

5.0 MovieSiegfried'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 Tcherniakov's daring...

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

2023

9.0 MovieLive performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

Beatrice di Tenda

2002

6.0 MovieJames Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Metropolitan Opera

2014

9.0 MovieThe high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Bayreuther Festspiele

2017

7.0 Movie

Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper

2020

5.0 Movie

Parsifal - Wiener Staatsoper

2015

8.0 Movie

Salome - Wiener Staatsoper

2020

MoviePerformance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, 26 July 2005

Die Gezeichneten

MovieRichard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is...

The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love

2021

MovieA 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 and fall of a...

Berg: Lulu

2015

MovieA 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...

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

2022

MovieRequiring 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...

Pfitzner: Palestrina

2009

MovieChristian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Having paid the giants for building...

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

2023

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

Lulu

2009

MovieLive from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú Romero Nunes, opens this year’s Munich Opera Festival...

Guillaume Tell

2014