Ulrich Reß Movies

The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.

Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking...

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music....

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...

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.

Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka’s lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with her sisters by her abusive...

Adaptation of 'The Flying Dutchman', recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.

Recorded at Bayerische Staatsoper on March 3-9, 2016.