Ulrich Reß

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rolando Villazón

A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, witches, and wood nymphs. In exchange for...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kristine Opolais

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Kristine Opolais

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions...

Genre: Music

Cast: Alain Vernhes

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kristine Opolais

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Piotr Beczala

Genre: Music

Cast: Georg Zeppenfeld

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Aušrinė Stundytė

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Paata Burchuladze

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christopher Ventris

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

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Robert Hale

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper