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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

Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend the princess Elsa - wrongly accused of the...

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Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

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 Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird...

Genre: Music

Cast: Francisco Araiza

Adaptation of "Der Prinz von Homburg"; recorded at the Bavarian State Opera.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: François Le Roux

This new production of Bellinis Norma by Jürgen Rose (sets, costumes, stage direction, and lighting) to honor Edita Gruberovas first staged...

Genre: Music

Cast: Edita Gruberova

Queen Semiramide is haunted by the ghosts of her past. Together with her lover Assur, she once murdered her husband King Nino; a deed which ever...

Genre: Music

Cast: Joyce DiDonato

This vivid film of Wagner's romatic opera succeeds in conveying what has famously been called "the wind that blows out at you whenever you open the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Donald McIntyre

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Piotr Beczala

A meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain that focuses on the tragic figure of renowned American-Greek opera singer Maria...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Abramović

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed by Simon Stone. Kirill Petrenko is conducting...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann