Michael Volle
Date of birth: 1960-01-01
Place of birth: Freudenstadt, Germany
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Movie Credits
Die Gezeichneten
Performance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenre
The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love
2021-01-01
Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband
Hunter's Bride
2010-12-23
Inspired by Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, the film opera Hunter's Bride traces the romantic
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
2023-04-01
Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever
Berg: Lulu
2015-04-07
A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
2022-10-29
A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner’s Ring
Pfitzner: Palestrina
2009-07-14
Requiring 38 soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" is a challenging op
Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
2023-08-18
Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
2023-08-06
Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staats
Lulu
2009-06-13
New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.
Guillaume Tell
2014-06-28
Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage dir
Royal Opera House: Salomé
2008-02-28
David McVicar’s powerful Royal Opera House 2008 production of Strauss's opera – based on a play by O
Les Vêpres siciliennes
2013-10-30
The French have occupied Sicily, and Hélène is held hostage by Montfort, the French governor, who ha
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
2008-11-09
This program captures a live performance of the Richard Wagner opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg,
Pelléas et Mélisande
2004-11-16
Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Bregenz Festival)
2015-07-23
Bregenzs Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you saw before. The New York Times praised t
Beatrice di Tenda
2002-01-01
Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.
Klassik am Odeonsplatz 2024 - Sir Simon Rattle
2024-07-12
The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
2014-12-13
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic pro
Beethoven · Die Symphonien
2013-09-23
Fierrabras
2007-10-06
Schubert Opera composed in 1823 but not performed until 1988. It is set in a medieval world and bas
Gurrelieder
2009-10-22
Performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele
2018-07-20
The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convinci
Alban Berg: Lulu
2012-05-01
Vera Nemirova’s challenging production of Berg’s operatic masterpiece Lulu won critical acclaim when
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
2020-04-25
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere duri
Verdi: Falstaff
2018-02-25
Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falsta
Ariadne auf Naxos - Zurich
2008-02-26
Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his libre
Johann Strauss: Simplicius
2003-02-21
Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II pre
Verdi: Nabucco
2019-06-23
A staging of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" by Andreas Homoki. Recorded at Opernhaus Zürich.