Michael Volle

Siegfried’s love story transposed to a high-tech hell… A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner’s tetralogy, ...

Christian Thielemann conducts “Walküre”, the second part of the “Ring des Nibelungen”, at the Staatsoper Unter den ...

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in ...

Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter’s Bride traces the romantic rivalry between two veterans of ...

This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival in ...

David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss’s opera – based on a play by Oscar Wilde – takes the controversial ...

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the ...

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 ...

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.