Movies: Michael Volle
- 2021
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love (2021)
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Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music....
- 2004
Pelléas et Mélisande (2004)
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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 the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premier...
- 2023
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)
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- 2008
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2008)
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This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, under the direction of Katharina Wagner. Some of the vocalists featured in the performance include Fran...
- 2002
Beatrice di Tenda (2002)
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Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002....
- 2013
Les Vêpres siciliennes (2013)
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The 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 and the rebellious patriot Henri in her bid for vengeance. Les Vêpres siciliennes ...
- 2008
Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich (2008)
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Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production from the Zurich Opera, recorded on this DVD, Christoph von Dohnányi leads a particularly str...
- 2023
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff (2023)
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Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensembl...
- 2014
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (2014)
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James 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 cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian te...
- 2010
Hunter's Bride (2010)
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Inspired 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 for the heart of the same woman....
- 2023
Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)
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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 Tcherniakov's daring staging and Christian Thielemann's virtuoso musical direction....
- 2015
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival) (2015)
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Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised the thoughtfulness and creativity of Stefan Herheims new production, devised by the director as a search for ones own self in a sparkling drag show. A ...
- 2022
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2022)
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- 2003
Johann Strauss: Simplicius (2003)
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Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien. Neither an opera nor an operetta, it was a work that did not fit into any of the pre-defined categorie...
- 2020
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala (2020)
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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 an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream ...
- 2018
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele (2018)
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The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer....
- 2008
Salomé (2008)
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Live from the Royal Opera 2008. David McVicar’s powerful 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial and disturbing film 120 Days of Sodom as its visual reference. The action is set in a debauched pal...
- 2009
Pfitzner: Palestrina (2009)
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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 premiered in 1917, director Christian Stückle, conductor Simone Young, and the Bavarian State Opera ...
- 2007
Fierrabras (2007)
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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 love between Eginhard and Emma. Live performance from 2007 at the Opernhaus Zürich....
- 1969
Die Gezeichneten (1969)
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Performance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, 26 July 2005...