Falk Struckmann

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Karita Mattila

Parsifal from the 1998 Bayreuth Festival

Genre: Music

Cast: Falk Struckmann

Genre: Music

Cast: Karita Mattila

In Verdi’s retelling of Shakespeare’s towering tragedy, Renée Fleming gives a captivating performance as the innocent Desdemona, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Johan Botha

The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele....

Genre: Music

Cast: Siegfried Jerusalem

A tribute to marriage coming from a bachelor is a tad suspicious. But for Beethoven the idealization of the woman-bride was heartfelt and sincere. It...

Genre: Music

Cast: Peter Mattei

This Götterdämmerung is the only installment of the Kirchner/Rosalie/Levine 1994-8 Bayreuth Ring taped for subsequent DVD release. Kirchner...

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Cast: Wolfgang Schmidtke

Get ready for Das Rheingold, the first chapter in Richard Wagner’s four-part epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. Travel to a world where gods,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Greer Grimsley

A fearless young hero battles otherworldly challenges on a journey to discover his destiny.

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Cast: Daniel Brenna

As the end nears for the gods, and human ambition rules the world, Alberich’s son Hagen hatches a plot to take control of the ring, threatening...

Genre: Music

Cast: Iréne Theorin

Iván Fischer makes his DNO debut. He conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Pierre Audi, artistic director of DNO and the Holland...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christopher Ventris

A deeply moving performance... one of those nights when it was a privilege to be at the Met." That's how the New York Times described the company's...

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Cast: Falk Struckmann

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

The prologue to Wagner's giant masterpiece Der Ring des Nibelungen unfolds the beginning of an epic journey when Alberich seizes the ring of gold,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Falk Struckmann

Where Das Rheingold introduces us to the gods, underworld denizens, and giants who inhabit the world of Wagner's Ring cycle, the second of the four...

Genre: Music

Cast: Falk Struckmann

In the third work of Wagner's epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegmund's shattered sword is forged once again and kills the dragon that guards...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Treleaven

This dramatic production by the brilliant German stage director Harry Kupfer marked Daniel Barenboim's appointment as the artistic director of the...

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Cast: Waltraud Meier

Musically, Götterdämmerung, like its predecessors in this Barcelona production, has strengths and flaws. Fortunately, Kupfer's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Deborah Polaski