Stefan Herheim

MovieWithout question, this is an incredibly bizarre production. The revised storyline makes little sense, and there is a surprising amount of violence and sexual...

The Abduction from the Seraglio

2006

MovieThe French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She turns to the partisan Jean Procida...

Les Vêpres siciliennes

2013

MovieDescribed by Tchaikovsky as ‘lyric scenes’, Eugene Onegin receives a spectacular reinterpretation from the Norwegian director Stefan Herheim. His productions create...

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Dutch National Opera)

2011

MovieBregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan Herheims new...

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)

2015

MovieThe tetralogy of four operas that form Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) explores the conjunction of love and power in a mythic landscape in which...

Wagner - Das Rheingold (Deutsche Oper Berlin)

2021

MovieParsifal in Bayreuth, directed by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Daniele Gatti.

Parsifal

2011

MovieOn his military campaign abroad, an eccentric king is more concerned with conquering women than land. He always gets his way, until one day he falls for his brother’s...

Xerxes - Berlin

2019

MovieThe dark world of Tchaikovsky’s penultimate operatic masterpiece Queen of Spades hinges on obsession, greed, and a secret in winning at cards… In 2005, the Opéra...

Royal Opera House: The Queen of Spades

2019

MovieAntonin Dvorak’s next to last opera draws its substance from the underwater wonderland of little mermaids, Undines and Melusines: the water nymph Rusalka falls...

Rusalka

2012

MovieSet in the artistic but impoverished milieu of early 19th-century Paris, the tragic love of the poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì is one of the most affecting in all...

La Bohème

2015

Movie‘Someone must have slandered Josef K, for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’ This is the famous opening line of Franz Kafka’s novel...

Der Prozess - MusikTheater an der Wien at Kammeroper Wien

2025

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Die Walküre

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Siegfried

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Götterdämmerung

MovieFor Theodora, a princess who has converted to Christianity, earthly existence means nothing compared to the promise of eternal salvation. She disobeys the command...

Theodora

2024