Pavel Cernoch

MovieIn a village community that holds firm to archaic customs, the young hunter Max must pass a marksmanship test so he may marry his sweetheart, Agathe. Of all times now...

Der Freischütz - Bayerische Staatsoper

2021

MovieMore than anything in the world, Rusalka, a mysterious and elusive water nymph, yearns to become human to win the heart of a young prince. But this metamorphosis...

Rusalka - Dutch National Opera

2023

MovieIolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-century Italian melodrama, the scenes have a recitative...

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real

2012

MovieInspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic – of a character embittered by...

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

2017

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

MovieOf Shostakovich’s initial undertaking – a trilogy on the tragic destinies of Russian women through the ages – only one opera was ever written: the hard-hitting Lady...

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

2019

MovieThe argument is based on an historical case. In the suburbs of Moscow, reigned around 1571 Tsar Ivan IV, 'the Terrible'. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife for the...

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride

2015

MovieDaphne lives in a world that is foreign to her. She is the embodiment of nature and finds human behaviour and desire alien. Apollo and Leucippus, both of whom desire...

Daphne - Berlin Staatsoper

2023

MovieHamlet, an opera by Verdi contemporaries Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's tragedy, had a "triumphal rebirth" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur) at the...

Faccio: Hamlet

MovieAt the heart of Věc Makropulos is a recipe for a life-prolonging elixir invented by the doctor Hieronymus Makropulos for Emperor Rudolf II. It was tested on the...

The Makropulos Case

2025