Michael Volle Movies
- 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
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,...
- 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...
- 2010
Hunter's Bride
Hunter's Bride62010HD
Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of the...
- 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
Pelléas et Mélisande02004HD
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...
- 2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala92020HD
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...
- 2008
Salomé
Salomé42008HD
Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde –...
- 2023
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin02023HD
- 2024
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle02024HD
- 2015
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)02015HD
Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan...
- 2009
Pfitzner: Palestrina
Pfitzner: Palestrina02009HD
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...
- 2013
Les Vêpres siciliennes
Les Vêpres siciliennes02013HD
The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed. She...
- 2002
Beatrice di Tenda
Beatrice di Tenda02002HD
Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
- 2007
Fierrabras
Fierrabras02007HD
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...
- 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....
- 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
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...
- 2018
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele02018HD
The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a...