Michael Volle

Most Popular Michael Volle Trailers

Total trailers found: 30

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff Trailer (2023)

01 April 2023

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.

Les Vêpres siciliennes Trailer (2013)

30 October 2013

The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who has had her brother executed.

Royal Opera House: Salomé Trailer (2008)

28 February 2008

David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 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.

Berg: Lulu Trailer (2015)

07 April 2015

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 and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Trailer (2008)

09 November 2008

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.

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival) Trailer (2015)

23 July 2015

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.

The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg Trailer (2014)

13 December 2014

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production.

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin Trailer (2022)

29 October 2022

A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner’s Ring tetralogy.

Gurrelieder Trailer (2009)

22 October 2009

Performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons

Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle Trailer (2024)

12 July 2024

Fierrabras Trailer (2007)

06 October 2007

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.

Pfitzner: Palestrina Trailer (2009)

14 July 2009

Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging opera to stage.

The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner.

Lulu Trailer (2009)

13 June 2009

New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.

Guillaume Tell Trailer (2014)

28 June 2014

Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú Romero Nunes, opens this year’s Munich Opera Festival with an orgy of fabulous singing.

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin Trailer (2023)

18 August 2023

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.

Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala Trailer (2020)

25 April 2020

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 from their homes all around the world.

Verdi: Falstaff Trailer (2018)

25 February 2018

Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor’s.

Johann Strauss: Simplicius Trailer (2003)

21 February 2003

Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien.

Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich Trailer (2008)

26 February 2008

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

Beethoven · Die Symphonien Trailer (2013)

23 September 2013

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele Trailer (2018)

20 July 2018

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.

Verdi: Nabucco Trailer (2019)

23 June 2019

A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.

Beatrice di Tenda Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin Trailer (2023)

06 August 2023

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

Hunter's Bride Trailer (2010)

23 December 2010

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.

Pelléas et Mélisande Trailer (2004)

16 November 2004

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 premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon.

Alban Berg: Lulu Trailer (2012)

01 May 2012

Vera Nemirova’s challenging production of Berg’s operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2010.

Wagner: Siegfried Trailer (2022)

01 January 2022

Haydn: Die Schopfung Trailer (2021)

20 August 2021

Inspired by hearing performances of Handel's oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Schöpfung ('The Creation') in 1798.