Kevin Conners Movies

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: Peter Rose

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Aušrinė Stundytė

A brilliant performance of Schönberg's monumental work at the Prague State Opera. Arnold Schönberg composed Gurre-Lieder to a text by J. P....

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Weinius

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

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Alain Vernhes

Live from Munich June 2014. Guillaume Tell , in a new production by 30-year-old Wunderkind stage director Antú Romero Nunes, opens this...

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Volle

A couple and their hallucinatory journey to the dark side of passion. Renata is driven by a longing for the consummate sexual encounter. Since her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Svetlana Sozdateleva

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira compressed the plot, set...

Genre: Music

Cast: Andrey Zhilikhovsky

The Snow Queen is Hans Abrahamsen's first opera, composed to a self-penned libretto, based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale....

Genre: Music

Cast: Barbara Hannigan

The revolutionary tribunal has sentenced Andrea Chénier to death and no one can avert his fate. Shortly before his execution, Chénier...

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Cast: Jonas Kaufmann

Barrie Kosky gives the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and devotes himself to its morbid side. The setting is Vienna, city of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Georg Nigl

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jon Fredric West

Intrigue, champagne, and irony: in a production directed by Barrie Kosky, the Bavarian State Opera presents a sparkling production of Johann Strauss...

Genre: Music

Cast: Vladimir Jurowski

The first part of the Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the shortened version, prepared by Cord Garben.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jukka Rasilainen

The third part of the Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in the shortened version, prepared by Cord Garben. Staged at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Leonid Zakhozhaev